President Jacob Zuma of South Africa (R) speaks during a joint press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (L) on September 10, 2009 at the South African parliament in Cape Town, South Africa. The European Union is not ready to end its sanctions against Zimbabwe, Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said on Thursday after calls by southern African leaders for them to be lifted.
Cara Black from Zimbabwe and Leander Paes from India play against the USa's Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott during their Mixed Doubles Finals US Open match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center September 10, 2009 in New York.
South African president Jacob Zuma jokes with photographers as he waits for the European Union representative to join him for a photo opportunity ahead of the opening session of the EU-SA summit in Kleinmond, South Africa on September 11, 2009. South Africa and the European Union started a summit expected to be dominated by calls from African nations for sanctions against Zimbabwe to be lifted. President Jacob Zuma was expected to press a call by southern African nations for the lifting of sanctions during meetings with EU representatives led by Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt speaks on September 11, 2009 during the opening session of the EU-SA summit in Kleinmond. South African President Jacob Zuma said the day before he would continue to urge the EU to drop sanctions against Zimbabwe as the bloc's Swedish presidency Sweden dug in its heels on lifting penalties. European Union officials led by Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the bloc's rotating presidency insisted the EU was not prepared to lift sanctions.
Part of a group of 150 former inmates leave a prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. A Zimbabwe official says 1,500 prisoners are being released across the country under a presidential amnesty program designed to ease overcrowding.
Part of a group of 150 former inmates leave a prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. A Zimbabwe official says 1,500 prisoners are being released across the country under a presidential amnesty program designed to ease overcrowding.
Zimbabwe activists showing Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as As of diamond. Mugabe is being shown sitting on an Emperor's chair surrounded by bags of money and a box of diamonds from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Global pressure mounted on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday, with former colonial ruler Britain calling for tougher EU sanctions over his 'disgraceful' crackdown on opposition leaders.
HARARE — President Robert Mugabe on Friday lashed out at Western sanctions against him, condemning "bloody whites" for meddling in Zimbabwe's affairs, on the eve of a landmark European Union visit.
"Who said the British and the Americans should rule over others? That's why we say down with you. We have not invited these bloody whites. They want to poke their nose into our own affairs. Refuse that," he said.
"We have stood stood firm and we have refused to let go. Zimbabwe, sanctions or no sanctions, Zimbabwe remains ours," he told a gathering of his party's youth wing.
Mugabe spoke ahead of the first EU high-level visit in seven years led by aid chief Karel De Gucht.
The team will visit the nation to meet with Mugabe and his one-time rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai who joined him in a unity government in February.
The EU and the United States imposed sanctions on Mugabe and his inner circle following a disputed presidential poll in 2002, which western nations as well as independent local poll monitors described as flawed.
"Why are they sanctions? Why are our people being punished? It is because the imperialists want our heritage," he said
He also insisted he would not back down from his controversial land reforms launched nine years ago, which saw white-owned farms resettled with blacks in a bid to redress colonial-era inequities.
The chaotic reforms were tinged with political violence, while agricultural production plunged, leaving the nation dependent on food aid.
"There is no reversal of the land reform programme at all," Mugabe said.
"The land reform exercise is irreversible. Those who have sought relief from outside Zimbabwe should know that land acquisition is through legal means and for that reason, the noises they make will simply frustrate them more," he said.
2 comments:
I am not sure if the sanctions are the best way to solve the problem as the only one who suffer are the local people, not Mughabe. and they have suffered for long time. we should find another solution. elli
just hire a killer and just kill that bastard
then the people of zimbabwe will be free
but this is just a logical solution for it.
The usa have the CIA who does that kind of things why won't they do that to mugabe
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