PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has once again blasted Western countries that have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, demanding that they remove them because they violated Zimbabweans’ rights and were a breach of the United Nations Charter.
By Staff Reporter
Speaking at the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York last night, Mugabe said: “Our small and peaceful country is threatened by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources knows no bounds.
“Shame, shame, shame to the United States of America! Shame, shame, shame to Britain and its allies! Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans, so are its resources. Please remove your illegal and filthy sanctions from my peaceful country. If these sanctions were intended to effect regime change, well, the results of the recent national elections have clearly shown you what they can do.”
Mugabe said for Africa, the reform of the United Nations Security Council was long overdue so that it could be more representative, democratic, transparent, accountable and accessible to the wider membership for its decisions to have more legitimacy.
Addressing journalists in Mutare US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton yesterday defended the restrictive measures saying they only targeted “just over 100 people who were making bad decisions for the country”.
lSee full text of the President’s speech on the NewsDay website: www.newsday.co.zw
