By Prensa Latina,
Johannesburg : South Africa rejected a proposal from Great Britain in the United Nations Security Council to condemn and punish Zimbabwe, local press media said here Saturday.
The British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote the text, which tries to consider the second round of the Zimbabwean elections celebrated Friday illegitimate.
However, South African representative Dumisani Kumalo said that to certificate the electoral results in Zimbabwe was not an affair of the UN Security Council.
London, Washington and most of the European Union governments imposed economic sanctions against the people of Zimbabwe to accelerate the fall of Zimbabwean current President Robert Mugabe.
The ballots for the second electoral round had two choices: Mugabe, or opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who gave up his participation in the elections as a presidential candidate Tuesday.
But the local Electoral Commission estimated as inadequate his resignation, since the request should have been presented 21 days before the elections.
Tsvangirai said his followers were suffering prosecution and threatening from followers of government Zimbabwe National African Union.
Nevertheless, the local opposition will control the next Zimbabwean Parliament because of its victory in the March 29 elections, in which it got 109 seats, against 97 by ZANU.