Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-02-Speech-1-038"
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"Mr President, we made a decision earlier that we would have an urgency on Zimbabwe. However, since this Parliament has taken an extremely principled view on this issue, it would be appropriate if you were to find the time to write to the Council to urge it to make a strong statement on the situation, which is in danger of escalating this week into a final showdown between the democratic movements in Zimbabwe and the regime led by Mugabe. There is enormous mass action going on, there has been tear-gassing of people, at least one person has been killed. Morgan Tsvangirai has been arrested as has his deputy Welshman Ncube.
I would ask you, Mr President, to express regret that the Council made a statement very early this morning, which was extremely weak. Certainly, it was not unequivocal in any sense in the way that it dealt with the situation in Zimbabwe. We need strong action and since the G8 is meeting and President Mbeki is there, we need to see our representatives in the G8 urging Mr Mbeki and other African leaders to distance themselves from the kind of actions we are seeing in Zimbabwe at this time."@en1
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