Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe says he will form a new government despite stalled power-sharing negotiations with the opposition, state media reports.
"The MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) does not want to come in apparently," he is quoted as saying.
The BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg says such a move would be the death-knell for the South African-brokered talks to end the post-poll crisis.
Meanwhile, three MDC MPs were arrested on Tuesday when parliament was opened.
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Two other opposition MPs had been arrested the day before, although one was later released.
"MDC views this continued harassment and arrest of MDC legislators by the state security agents as a direct affront to the will of the people of Zimbabwe," the party said in a statement.
The police have said the arrests were in connection with rape, attempted murder and political violence.
Our correspondent says Mr Mugabe was speaking in bullish mood about forming a government after being booed an jeered by at the opening of parliament by opposition MPs.
He looked annoyed and raced through the final lines of his speech and it must have been humiliating for him, as the speech was broadcast live on national television, she says.
"We shall soon be setting up a government. The MDC does not want to come in apparently," the Herald newspaper quotes the president as saying.
At the start of his speech on Tuesday, Mr Mugabe had said there was "every expectation" that a power-sharing deal would be agreed.
He said he regretted the "isolated cases of political violence" earlier this year and blamed all parties.
The MDC accuses Zanu-PF of organising a campaign of violence to ensure victory in the presidential run-off in June.
It says some 200 people were killed and 200,000 forced from their homes. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew from the presidential run-off, citing the violence.
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