Tsvangirai warns against Zimbabwe sanctions

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Posted to the web: 17/11/2008 21:55:41
MORGAN Tsvangirai cautioned Monday against imposing more sanctions on Zimbabwe, instead urging immediate humanitarian aid.

The MDC leader said that a September 15 power-sharing agreement with President Robert Mugabe could still yield results despite fundamental disagreements between the two sides.

But Tsvangirai said an offer for his party to head the finance ministry was a trap. Tsvangirai, who was in France for an international development conference, said his party should be given more power over internal security.

"The country is broke and therefore he (Mugabe) wants us to go and clean up the mess by establishing financial rules, because he does not have financial relations with anybody," Tsvangirai said.

The dispute over ministries is leaving Zimbabweans without leadership as their economy collapses.

Tsvangirai said that, instead of more sanctions, the country must have emergency humanitarian aid. He said millions of people need food and medicine to counter the spread of cholera.

The EU has blacklisted 172 people linked to Mugabe's government and four companies believed to financially support Mugabe and his Zanu PF party.

The EU also has frozen long-term aid projects in Zimbabwe and imposed an arms embargo.

Mugabe has long complained that sanctions have contributed to the country’s economic decline. At the United Nations in September, Mugabe appealed for sanctions to be lifted “so that my country can focus, undisturbed, on its economic turn-around programme”.
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