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Tsvangirai, who joined President Robert Mugabe in a unity government last month, said in his maiden speech to parliament that Zimbabwean efforts to solve the country's political crisis through power-sharing needed to be recognised.

"I therefore urge the international community to recognise our efforts and note the progress that we make in this regard and to match our progress by moving towards the removal of restrictive measures," Tsvangirai said.

The U.S. and European Union have put in place targeted sanctions against certain individuals close to Mugabe and some Zimbabwean companies.

Tsvangirai said Zimbabwe, in the grips of a cholera epidemic which has killed nearly 4,000 people and infected almost 87,000, needed to re-establish relations with international donors.

"What we need is to fully re-establish relations with the international donor community, which will be respectful of our sovereignty, not a relationship essentially based on humanitarian assistance."

He warned Zimbabwean government officials that any future human rights abuses could lead to arrest and prosecution and said the days of police violently breaking up demonstrations and needlessly arresting people had to come to an end.

"In future such activities could bring the threat of prosecution not only on those arresting or interfering with such activities but also on those that ordered such interference and arrests," Tsvangirai said.


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Comments (2 posted):

Chocolate Engineer Observer on 04 March, 2009 11:31:11
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Many Suspicious Activities and acts such as via media emission by the MDC have been noted and scrutinized
Now we may be seeing that the MDC –T are condoning the evil of the globally known Zanu PF criminals embed in the Zanu political infirmaries
Never mind that most of those listed on targeted sanctions lists deservedly have noose waiting for them.
It seems that even more loonies are at large in constructive purpose to reduce Zimbabwe to an Ethiopian status.
Faraway on 05 March, 2009 02:12:59
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Morgan can play the game, but he knows all too well that with Mugabe and cronies still in power,and still causing havoc, sanction against these people will not go away.

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