Tendai Biti, the Zimbabwean finance minister and a senior figure in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), visited London and met David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary.
Mr Biti, who suffered assault and imprisonment for opposing President Robert Mugabe, restored Zimbabwe's relations with Britain after almost a decade in the deep freeze. The last Foreign Secretary to meet a Zimbabwean minister was Robin Cook in April 2000.
Mr Biti wants Britain to fund Zimbabwe's new government, which includes the MDC in a coalition with Mr Mugabe. But British officials say the new administration must reform the economy and restore political freedoms trampled on by Mr Mugabe before any aid can be offered.
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