MDC
The National Council Resolves that:

1.) The MDC does not recognize the 27th of June "event" and accordingly does not recognize the outcome, thereof.

2.) The 29th of March election is the sole and legitimate election that must move this country forward.

3.) The Party must engage in dialogue for the purpose of ensuring that we resolve the Zimbabwean crisis and bring in legitimacy and democracy to Zimbabwe.

4.) As a precondition of the dialogue, must be the secession of all violence, disbandment of all militia, dismantlement of all bases and the repatriation of all displaced persons.

5.) All perpetrators of violence be prosecuted expeditiously and impartially.

6.) It thanks all Zimbabweans for bearing the suffering and scourge of this regime and ask that they remain patient and hopeful for the true deliverance and change that is inevitable.

7.) It thanks all Election Observer Missions in particular, those from the African Union, Pan-African Parliament and SADC for honest, objective and brave observation made in the true spirit of Pan-African solidarity.

8.) It thanks all African leaders and civic groups who have spoken for and fought in the corner of Zimbabweans and urges the United Nations and the African Union to remain vested with the Zimbabwean issue in a bid to bring the suffering of our people to an end.

Statement issued by the Movement for Democratic Change July 7 2008