EU Summit: Good on Gordon for staying away
I applaud Mr Brown’s decision to stay away from the EU-Africa summit.
The EU has a policy set out in an attempt to force Mr Mugabe to stop his political and human rights abuses of the citizens of Zimbabwe.
Mr Mugabe is receiving support from lots of other nations who have chosen to ignore his atrocities in pursuit of “African Solidarity”.
The EU sanctions policy itself is relatively supine, but to back down on even that in the face of threats made in support of an odious dictator and murderer is craven.
The summit does not even have Darfur on the agenda.
They should all have either sent the Second Secretary in Charge of Drawing Pins (which can do far less damage that the torture committed by Mr Mugabe’s organisations), or simply called the whole thing off.
Leaving all the other politics aside, this is plus considerably more than one for Mr Gordon.
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It has been reported that this summit, is the first one in 7 years and previous attempts to have one have failed because of this issue about Mugabe. So is this Eu-Africa summit important to the two continents? Is Mugabe big enough to stop this summit happening, as has been the case in the past seven years.
As for Mr Brown, I’m sorry but I do not agree with him not attending the summit. Mr Mugabe was invited to the summit isn’t it?
These sanctions are meant to be selective on Mugabe and his inner circle of friends. So why should Zimbabwe be isolated because of problems with Mugabe. These sanctions have been on for some time now, but things are not improving in Zimbabwe. People are still suffering and these sanctions maybe contributing to the problem.
We appreciate if Zimbabwe remains in the sportlight, as media attention may make world leaders think about the plight of Zimbabwe people. If Mugabe is as bad as for Mr Brown not like to meet him at an EU-Africa summit then why is his country sending Zimbabweans back there?
It is the welfare of the ordinary people of Zimbabwe which is more important than these political disagreements.