afrol News, 9 April - The former UN chief who brokered a power-sharing agreement in Kenya has asked the country's political leaders - President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister-designate Raila Odinga - to "give me a nice present - an agreement on the cabinet.

Turning 70 on Wednesday, Mr Annan would celebrate his birthday in dignity if the two parties quickly resolve their deadlock and constitute a cabinet.

Mr Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement suspended talks with the government after a deadlock over sharing of key ministerial positions. The party said it would not return to the talks unless the government agrees to give up some key ministeries, including Foreign Affairs.

However, Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka sounded differently when he expressed President Kibaki's resolve to support him [Kibaki] if he “dissolves parliament and call fresh elections if the formation of the grand coalition failed."

Mr Musyoka, who ranked third in the December presidential polls, said “the opposition leaders should deal with the problem of the residents displaced in the post-election violence instead of the cabinet posts."

International community has been pressuring the two sides to put aside their individual interests and form a unity government and start reconstruction and healing process.

"I am dismayed by the latest turn of events in Kenya," read a statement from the Foreign and Commonwealth office.

"We urge Kenya's leaders to agree a power-sharing cabinet that will serve all Kenyans effectively in order that the country can move forward and start to deal with the underlying issues that fuelled so much of the violence in the post-election period."

By staff writer

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