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Original Post Date: 2003-12-10 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 12/10/2003 2:48:23 PM
Zimbabwe threatens to cut UK ties
[Note. Its kind of ironic that in the 1960’s Rhodesia did these things too – cutting off ties with Britain. I find it quite something that the same country can go from a far-Right Rebellion to a far-Left Rebellion.
The only difference is that Rhodesia could feed and run itself. Whereas Mugabe needs others. So I think its quite hillarious that he wants to cut ties. Let him cut ties and starve to death. Jan]
Robert Mugabe’s government indicated yesterday that it was considering severing diplomatic ties with Britain and Australia in response to their tough Commonwealth stand over Zimbabwe. “The time has now come for Zimbabwe to fully engage Britain head-on by cutting all diplomatic ties with the former colonial master and its sidekick, Australia,” said an editorial in the Herald. The newspaper is regarded as the mouthpiece of the information minister, Jonathan Moyo. On Sunday, President Mugabe announced he was pulling his country out of the Commonwealth because of the 54-nation organisation’s refusal to lift its suspension of Zimbabwe’s membership. This was imposed last year after accusations of fraud and violence during Mr Mugabe’s re-election campaign. Yesterday, the Herald called for the closure of diplomatic missions and ending communication with the British government. It stopped short of demanding the repatriation of about 40,000 British citizens in Zimbabwe and the closure of the 300 or more British-based firms operating there.
If the Mugabe government forced Britain to close its mission in Harare, it could set off a chain reaction of diplomatic closures involving the embassies of other EU states. The British high commission declined to comment on the newspaper’s suggestion. In the past, the Herald has vilified Brian Donnelly, the British high commissioner to Harare, accusing him of plotting to overthrow the government. “If we lost sleep over every scurrilous article printed about us in the Herald, we wouldn’t go to bed at all,” one diplomat said. But observers interpreted the Herald’s editorial as a serious escalation of its campaign against British representatives in Zimbabwe. The call to cut all diplomatic ties with Britain is viewed in Harare as a reflection of Mr Mugabe’s anger over the weekend Commonwealth summit in Abuja, but not yet a statement of government policy.
“This shows the current rancour that Mugabe feels more than what he actually plans to do,” said Iden Wetherell, editor of the Zimbabwe Independent, one of the country’s few privately owned weekly papers. “But it could be a harbinger of things to come. Now he has quit the Commonwealth, Mugabe will want to beat the nationalist drum. That would place Britain in the firing line, but it will have implications for Zimbabwe’s relations with other countries which might lead him to hesitate.” The Herald’s editorial said that by breaking off relations with the British government, Zimbabweans would prove to be the “true torchbearers to other African and third world countries suffering under the yoke of imperialism”. In the Commons, Tony Blair said Zimbabwe was being driven further into chaos by “ruinous economic policies”. Half the population now relied on food aid – with Britain the leading cash donor. “In these circumstances, I and others argued that it was inconceivable that Zimbabwe should be readmitted to the councils of the Commonwealth, and that… it should remain suspended until we saw concrete evidence of a return to democracy, respect for human rights and the rule of law.”
Source:Guardian (UK)
Andrew Meldrum in Pretoria
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