OUAGADOUGOU (AFP) — Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is "satisfied" with the power-sharing deal hammered out with President Robert Mugabe, EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel said Friday.
Speaking during a visit to Burkina Faso, Michel said Tsvangirai shared his feelings during a telephone conversation Friday, a day after news of an agreement emerged in Harare.
"The one thing I can say is that I had a phone conversation with Tsvangirai this morning," Michel told reporters in Ouagadougou where he is attending a Euro-African forum on media and development.
"I asked him if he was satisfied with the agreement, and he told me: 'Yes, I am satisfied with the content of the agreement'. I cannot tell you more than that."
Michel said he would be getting details of the accord from Tsvangirai "in the coming hours," although South African President Thabo Mbeki has said the full content would be made public next Monday when the deal is signed.
In Brussels, a spokesman for Michel said the agreement, while welcomed by the European Union, would have to be looked at closer before a decision can be taken on relaxing sanctions imposed on Mugabe's regime.
In that regard, Michel said the European Union -- whose foreign ministers will gather Monday in Brussels for a meeting chaired by the French EU presidency -- would take Tsvangirai's views into account.
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