Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi two years ago that the UK would not support the Zimbabwean government until President Robert Mugabe was gone, raising questions as to what the European Union will do next week when the sanctions are due for renewal.
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Zimbabwe’s inclusive government offers the only credible means of transforming the country and of delivering basic services to the people because there is currently no roadmap to credible and properly monitored elections, Britain’s Under Secretary of State for Africa and the United Nations, Henry Bellingham, said yesterday.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi’s visit to Zimbabwe today has raised eyebrows especially from the West which fears that if China brings the investment that has so far been reported about to Zimbabwe this could bolster President Robert Mugabe’s hold on power.
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Britain was so optimistic two days before a United Nations Security Council meeting in July 2008 that China and Russia would support a resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe that Prime Minister Gordon Brown felt that his “nose had been bloodied” by the Russians when they vetoed the resolution.
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