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Zimbabwe: Libya Condemns Sanctions Against Country
Posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 News Editor
The Herald
LIBYA yesterday condemned the economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West as unreasonable and called for dialogue.
"Economic sanctions, political sanctions and other pressures will not realise the desired results," said Dr Saed Arabi Hifyanah, a special envoy of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
He said Western powers should drop their policy of dominating the world because it has been a total failure.
Speaking to journalists after meeting President Mugabe at his Munhumutapa Office in Harare, Dr Hifyanah said the West's meddling in Iraq had been a disaster.
He said in Zimbabwe the West had also failed dismally in its agenda for regime change despite imposing crippling economic sanctions.
Dr Hifyanah said the West should pursue dialogue in place of its flagrant domination and manipulation of smaller countries.
He said Libya supports Zimbabwe's quest for economic independence through the land reform programme.
"We know that Zimbabwe is leading a struggle to achieve economic independence.
"There is no value to political independence without economic independence," said Dr Hifyanah.
Sadc leaders recently called on Britain, the European Union and the United States to lift the illegal sanctions which are hurting the ordinary people.
Presenting his interim monetary policy statement last week, Reserve Bank Governor Dr Gideon Gono urged the nation to unite in calling for the removal of the sanctions.
The Libyan official said Col Gaddafi sent him to exchange views with President Mugabe on various issues of mutual interest between Libya and Zimbabwe.
He said they discussed bilateral relations between Harare and Tripoli, and regional and international affairs, including the African Union summit to be held in Accra, Ghana, in July.
The AU summit presented the continent with an opportunity to discuss ways of further continental enhancing integration, he said.
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