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"en.20050411.14.1-051"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the whole world has heard that President Mugabe’s ZANU-PF Party won the parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe with an overwhelming majority, but no one is labouring under any illusions, because it is common knowledge that those elections were far from free and fair. They involved intimidation and terror by Mugabe’s followers, as well as electoral fraud on a massive scale. Nevertheless, the observers of the Southern African Development Community claimed that the elections had been free and that the outcome fully reflected the will of Zimbabwe’s people. Meanwhile, that country is inching closer to the abyss. It is high time we had a new policy, one that will remind the African countries of their responsibilities. The South African President’s ‘silent diplomacy’ amounts to complicity with Mugabe’s regime. The British newspaper
is right in saying that, as long as the African leaders and Mbeki refuse to take action against Zimbabwe, their own pledges of democracy and good governance in exchange for European funds are completely meaningless. If those countries continue to protect Mugabe, the EU should stop giving them money."@en1
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