Johannesburg, 28 June-(ANA)- Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday defended his move to enter a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe, saying they would succeed or fail together.
"Those who accept me have to accept Robert Mugabe.... If there is a problem, we go and fail together," Tsvangirai told reporters in Johannesburg following a three-week tour to London, Washington, Berlin, Stockholm, Brussels and Paris.
"I don't have to defend Mugabe's past and position towards the West or other countries," said the former opposition stalwart who challenged Mugabe in a bitterly disputed election last year before reaching an agreement with him.
"We are in this transition and this transition is working," he added.
He also said his tour to drum up support for the "new" Zimbabwe was a success despite criticism from Western leaders of continued human rights abuses and he insisted that political and economic reforms were gathering pace.
"The reforms are not stopping, they are accelerating," he said.
"I'm happy with the pace.... It has to take into consideration the local realities, the sensitivities. We have to navigate through a lot of problems." (ANA)