津巴布韦上周的政府账目仅剩$217-凯发k8官网

 

however, he said that the following day some $30m of revenue had been paid in.

 

mr biti told the bbc he made the revelation in order to ¹ that the government was unable to finance elections, not that it was ²（无力偿还的）.

 

polls are due this year, with president robert mugabe's zanu-pf fighting mr biti's movement for democratic change.

 

mr biti has ³ complained that diamond mining companies have not been paying revenues to the government. 

 

the power-sharing government set up in 2009 ended years of hyperinflation（恶性通货膨胀） by using the us dollar, but the economy ⁴ fragile.

 

 

mr biti told the bbc's focus on africa radio programme that his statement had been ⁵ taken out of context.

 

"you journalists are ⁶（恶作剧的） and ⁷ - the point i was making was that the zimbabwean government doesn't have the funds to finance the election, to finance the referendum," he said.

 

"to dramatise the point, i simply made a passing reference ⁸ that when we paid civil servants last week on thursday we were left with $217... but even the following day we had $30m in our account."

 

zimbabwe needs nearly $200m to pay for a referendum on a new constitution, as well as the election. 

 

the government-run ⁹ newspaper says mr biti and justice minister patrick chinamasa have been given the task of sourcing this money from ¹⁰. 

 

¹¹ say the power-sharing government has achieved some economic stability.

 

however, high levels of unemployment mean the country's tax and revenue base remains extremely low. 

 

"we're in a challenging position, we're a small economy and we've got huge things to be done but… the minister for finance of greece has an even worse story," mr biti told the bbc.

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