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communiqué will be issued while a Press conference will be held in the evening to conclude the proceedings.
The troika meeting is also expected to discuss the political situation in Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa, Transport, Communications and Infrastructural Development Minister Nicholas Goche and Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa are here to attend the Troika meeting.
Ministers Goche, Chinamasa and Mnangagwa are the Zanu-PF negotiators to the Global Political Agreement.
MDC-T negotiators Finance Minister Tendai Biti and his Energy and Power Development counterpart Elton Mangoma will also attend the meeting.
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Negotiators for the Professor Welshman Ncube-led MDC formation are Regional Integration and International Co-operation Minister Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga and Mr Moses Mzila-Ndlovu, who is in the Organ for National Healing.
The troika reports to the full Sadc summit. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and faction leaders of the smaller MDC formation will also attend the meeting.
The Sadc Council of Ministers was discussing the agenda of the extraordinary summit by late yesterday.
Initially, the meeting was supposed to be an extraordinary summit for the heads of state and government only, but the troika meeting was reportedly slotted in at the last minute.
The troika, which is chaired by President Zuma, also comprises leaders of Zambia and Mozambique.
Zimbabwe is expected to hold harmonised elections this year as the logical conclusion to the Sadc-brokered GPA.
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