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Sunday, July 13, 2008 --- 55 days ago http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-lauria/fault-lines-emanating-fro_b_112433.html
| The vetoed sanctions resolution against Zimbabwe at the UN Security Council on Friday has exposed the fault lines of international tensions than divide the West from Africa, Russia from the West and the United States from South Africa. The surprise Chinese and Russian vetoes provoked sharp words in the usually staid Security Council as tensions broke out into the open. U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad publicly bashed South Africa as the main culprit in the failed Anglo-American bid to punish Robert Mugabe and his cronies with sanctions on travel, finances and arms. Unprompted, he told reporters: "I want to say a word or two about the performance of South Africa." In diplomatic parlance critiquing another nation's' "performance" are fighting words. "It was particularly disturbing," Khalilzad said, "given the history of South Africa ... where international sanctions played an important role in encouraging transformation [from apartheid] for its representative to be protecting the horrible regime in Zimbabwe." He dismissed the South African argument that sanctions would derail talks in Pretoria between Mugabe's Zanu PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Khalilzad proclaimed: "There isn't anything serious going on in terms of the negotiations. The South African effort, President Mbeki's effort so far, has been a failure." Mugabe stole the presidential election and has refused to seat the parliament because MDC w ... |
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