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Tsvangirai Booed By Zimbabwean Bogus Asylum Seekers In UK, Shocks The West
22 June 2009 Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's prime minister, has been booed by a crowd of Zimbabwean asylum seekers many of whose claims in the United Kingdom have been dismissed. The Zimbabwean bogus exiles repeatedly chanted the same slogan, that 85-year-old Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, must quit first after he pleaded with them to return home and help rebuild their country. Tsvangirai gave a speech to an audience of 1,000 people in Southwark Cathedral in London on Saturday, saying that "Zimbabweans must come home". The crowd also booed Tsvangirai when he insisted that the four-month-old unity government of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and Mugabe's Zanu-PF had "made sure that there is peace and stability in Zimbabwe". Tsvangirai left the pulpit for two minutes before delegating a question and answer session. Alex Chigumira, 42, who fled Zimbabwe eight years ago, said: "We can already see that Tsvangirai has adopted the politics of Mugabe. Tsvangirai was in London on his final stop of a tour of Europe and the US aimed at gaining international support for a "new" Zimbabwe. As part of his campaign, Tsvangirai earlier met British ministers and business leaders. Tsvangirai is expected to hold talks with Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, on Monday.
Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's prime minister, has been booed by a crowd of Zimbabwean asylum seekers many of whose claims in the United Kingdom have been dismissed.
The Zimbabwean bogus exiles repeatedly chanted the same slogan, that 85-year-old Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, must quit first after he pleaded with them to return home and help rebuild their country.
Tsvangirai gave a speech to an audience of 1,000 people in Southwark Cathedral in London on Saturday, saying that "Zimbabweans must come home".
The crowd also booed Tsvangirai when he insisted that the four-month-old unity government of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and Mugabe's Zanu-PF had "made sure that there is peace and stability in Zimbabwe".
Tsvangirai left the pulpit for two minutes before delegating a question and answer session.
Alex Chigumira, 42, who fled Zimbabwe eight years ago, said: "We can already see that Tsvangirai has adopted the politics of Mugabe.
Tsvangirai was in London on his final stop of a tour of Europe and the US aimed at gaining international support for a "new" Zimbabwe.
As part of his campaign, Tsvangirai earlier met British ministers and business leaders.
Tsvangirai is expected to hold talks with Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, on Monday.
Tsvangirai Shocks America
Ooutgoing United States of America ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr James McGee yesterday said he thought MDC- T leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, would never call for the lifting of sanctions slapped on Zimbabwe by its detractors.
Speaking to journalists at a round table discussion at the embassy premises yesterday evening, Mr McGee said his country and the MDC leader were aware of the agenda of the sanctions and would not call for their removal.
Mr McGee said this in response to journalists who wanted to know what his government was going to do given that Mr Tsvangirai was calling for the removal of sanctions.
"I have not heard the head of the MDC calling on targeted sanctions to be removed. They are quite aware on what we want to do with the sanctions . . . The pressure will remain . . . The MDC (T) is aware that lifting sanctions is counterproductive," he said.
Mr McGee reiterated the statements he made after meeting Vice President Joice Mujuru on Wednesday that the sanctions would not be lifted until certain conditions were met.
The ambassador who is leaving early next month also said the sanctions slapped on the country by Britain and her allies had served their purpose
However, the so-called targeted sanctions have caused untold suffering among ordinary people in Zimbabwe.
The Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 by the US Senate implored all US nationals in positions of authority in influential lending institutions to vote against financial support to be given to Zimbabwe or debt relief to be extended to the country.
Said Mr McGee: "The sanctions have affected the tar-geted people . . . These sanctions are not illegal . . . they are our sanctions.
"We will give assistance to those who want to move forward and we will not give assistance to those who want to maintain status quo," he said.
He argued that the country was already going down before ZDERA was passed by the US Senate in 2001.
He said Zimbabwe was already owing the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the African Development Bank over US$ 1,5 billion.
"On the 280 people on sanctions list, we do have carrot if they go to the UN meetings . . . We provide them with visas.
"The sanctions are successful and will continue to be in place," he said.
He however, agreed that there were a number of posi-tive developments by the inclusive Government, chief among them the reduction of inflation, introduction of the use of multiple currencies and payment of civil servants allowances in US dollars.
Mr McGee however, said he did not see positive developments on the political front and the country's laws that he said discouraged investment.
He admitted that Zimbabwe was endowed with material and human resources that would sustain the econ-omy without outside assistance.
Mr McGee said he was willing to see President Mugabe before leaving for Washington DC and bid him farewell.
He was optimistic that the permission was going to be granted through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He said after leaving Zimbabwe, he was going to teach at US National Defense Unity also known as National War College at the African Centre for Strategic Studies department.
This centre stopped taking war students from Zimbabwe in 1999 after Britain internationalised its bilateral disagreement with Zimbabwe over the land reform programme.
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