LONDON (Reuters (LSE: TRIL.L - news) ) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday the international community could send a peacekeeping force to stabilise Zimbabwe.

President Robert Mugabe was re-elected to power in the southern African nation at the weekend in a one-sided vote that was boycotted by the opposition and widely condemned by world leaders.

"There has been some discussion of an international peacekeeping force and that is an option that is obviously on the table," Brown told a parliamentary committee. "I think we have got to bear in mind that all the pressure at the moment is political pressure to try and achieve a desired result."

"But we've got to listen also to what the opposition in Zimbabwe are saying to us about what they think is the right course that they wish to see pursued and we've got to get the mediators working very quickly to achieve the transition we want to see."

(Reporting by Matt Falloon)