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UNITED NATIONS-The United States said on Thursday it expects the U.N. Security Council to vote next week on sanctions against Zimbabwe's leaders for last week's widely criticized election but South Africa suggested it would oppose the resolution.U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters after a closed-door council session that he had formally submitted the U.S.-drafted resolution to the full 15-nation council."We expect a vote on the resolution sometime next week," Khalilzad said.The sanctions would impose an arms embargo on Zimbabwe and travel bans and asset freezes on President Robert Mugabe, the central bank governor and 10 other top government and security officials.Mugabe won re-election in a June 27 run-off ballot after Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, pulled out because of attacks on his supporters. Tsvangirai had won a first-round vote on March 29. Khalilzad said the council had no choice but to respond to Zimbabwe's defiance. But it did not want to do anything that would harm the country's already-suffering people, he said."We have proposed a resolution that will impose targeted sanctions on those that are responsible for the crisis with the expectation and hope that they will be incentivized to cooperate," he said."This crisis not only impacts the people of Zimbabwe, and we stand with them, but also the region," Khalilzad said.To read more go to:
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