The 180-member United Nations World Tourism Organization today re-elected Taleb Rifai of Jordan for a second four-year term as its secretary general at the end of the summit in the Zambian town of Livingstone, across the border from Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls resort. Rifai brushed aside criticism the six-day meeting gave legitimacy to President Robert Mugabe’s government saying the summit gave Zimbabweans optimism and was not an opportunity to discuss what he called “grand issues”.
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