The issue wasn't on the agenda at the UN Security Council summit, but British Prime Minister Gordon Brown brought it up anyway : Zimbabwe. He raised doubt that President Robert Mugabe had been re-elected.
(SOUNDBITE)(English) BRITISH PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN, SAYING:
"No one thinks, having seen the results of polling stations, that President Mugabe has won. A stolen election would not be a democratic election at all."
No result has been announced. But Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai contends he won the election on March 29.
(SOUNDBITE)(English) BAN KI-MOON, UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL, SAYING:
UN Secretary -General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep concern, warning that the deadlocked situation could deteriorate in Zimbabwe.
"The credibility off the democratic process in Africa could be at stake here."
South African president Thabo Mbeki heads the Security Council but did not include Zimbabwe as an official topic of the summit. He has said he does not see the election stalemate as a crisis. Fred Katayama, Reuters, New York.
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