Harare - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's party Saturday demanded that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's co-ruling Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) should be working to get Western "illegal" sanctions against Mugabe and his allies lifted.

"The MDC, which urged its international supporters to impose the illegal sanctions, has the sole responsibility to ensure that its international supporters remove the sanctions forthwith," ZANU-PF spokesperson Ephraim Masawi was quoted by the state-owned Herald of Saturday as saying.

"It is now six months since the formation of the inclusive government and ZANU-PF leaders as well as their families are still inhibited to visit Europe, United States of America, as indeed in respect of their children to go to school in these countries," he said.

But members of the MDC are "free to roam the world" at the same
time that those seen as being sympathetic to Mugabe's ZANU-PF
"continue to be subjected to a regime of brutal illegal sanctions,"
Masawi said.
(dpa)