Parties in Zimbabwe have reached consensus on a draft agreement towards holding substantive crisis talks, a UN special representative to the country said Sunday.
"There is a draft which we are informed the two negotiating parties have agreed to, but the two principals, that is Mr (President Robert) Mugabe and Mr (Morgan) Tsvangirai, would have to sign," he told South African public radio.
"It hasn't been signed yet, but once that is done, once you clear the way or the basis for the talks, then the actual talks begin."
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