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Australia says world must not bow to Zimbabwe threat
Australia urged the international community on Monday not to be intimidated by Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe after he threatened to quit the Commonwealth if membership threatened his African country’s sovereignty.
Go ahead, Bob, make my day.
Zimbabwe was suspended from the 54-nation Commonwealth last year after Mugabe was accused of rigging his own re-election. He has not been invited to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Abuja in Nigeria from December 5-8. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the situation in Zimbabwe was deteriorating and Mugabe had done nothing to encourage the group of mainly former British colonies to lift the suspension.
Not unless you count being a lunatic among them ...
’’I hope that the international community will join with Australia and not be intimidated in any way by the taunts or the policies of President Mugabe,’’ Downer told parliament. At the weekend, Mugabe suggested Zimbabwe could quit the Commonwealth if the country had to give up its sovereignty to be readmitted. The Zimbabwe issue has dominated preparations for the Commonwealth summit and threatened to split the group along racial lines.
If it splits that easy, it's probably not worth having...
Mugabe accuses what he calls the ’’white’’ section of the group — led by Australia and Britain — of pursuing a vendetta because of the government’s seizure of white-owned farms. Downer praised Nigeria for not inviting Mugabe despite several other African members trying to include him. Australia has said it will support the re-admission of Pakistan — which was suspended from the Commonwealth in 1999 after a military coup put General Pervez Musharraf in power — because a general election in 2002 had restored democracy.
Umm ... yeah. Right.
Of a sort...
However lifting Pakistan’s suspension is opposed by some countries, including India.
Posted by: Dan Darling 2003-12-01
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=22024