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2007-02-02 Europe

EU split looms over summit invitations to Mugabe regime

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Posted by Steve White 2007-02-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Surprised to see Portugal mixed up in this. Presumably it's because they actually have a pretty large (felt) stake in all things southern African. Otherwise, they've been a quiet voice of sanity and maturity in Europe (sort of in the mold of Denmark and the Netherlands).

Posted by Verlaine 2007-02-02 03:37|| 2007-02-02 03:37|| Front Page Top

#2 New Zimbabwe.com 02/02/07

TWENTY-THREE soldiers attached to the Presidential Guard Unit have
been arrested and detained after they sprayed President Robert Mugabe's State House official residency with bullets on Monday night ahead of his arrival from Ethiopia where he had gone to attend an African Union meeting.....

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/

Maybe Bob will get a Pakistani passport, hitch a ride on the Chunnel Train from Frogistan and become one of those asylum seekers we seem to get so many of. Get to shake Chazza's hand again.

Then again, maybe he'll just stay in Zim and have a crackdown.

Posted by rhodesiafever 2007-02-02 11:15|| 2007-02-02 11:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Both Lisbon and Paris are concerned that if he is excluded, other governments from the region, particularly South Africa, might boycott the meetings

And the downside is...... ?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-02-02 11:31|| 2007-02-02 11:31|| Front Page Top

#4 "...diplomatic isolation of his regime that Britain is trying to maintain."
OK, I'll bite, which part of Britian: the gov't of the banking industry? And if the Brits were serious they would be leaning on their banks after the exposure last week about the huge loans given to Zim-Bob.
More dithering.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-02-02 14:27|| 2007-02-02 14:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Is there any butt that Chirac will not kiss?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-02-02 15:00|| 2007-02-02 15:00|| Front Page Top

#6 But British officials and human rights groups have argued that Zimbabwean participation in such high-profile events would make sanctions all but meaningless.

Well, this has really got my poor head well fokked, them British officials and yuman rights groups, say what?

Barclays Bank, Old Mutual and Standard Chartered say OK. (Is it)? Old expression from the old days.

Kill the Mo-Fo and all his kin, whether they be here or there. Charge his tribe for the cost of the bullet(s).

Posted by rhodesiafever 2007-02-02 18:44|| 2007-02-02 18:44|| Front Page Top

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