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No invite for Mugabe
23/09/2003 09:57 - (SA)
Cape Town - Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean President, will not be invited to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, the SABC reports.
South African officials in New York, where President Thabo Mbeki will address the United Nations general assembly, say the move comes after discussions between Mbeki and Olesegun Obasanjo, the Nigerian President.
Zimbabwe was suspended from the 54-nation body in March last year over its poor human rights record and Mugabe's re-election in a vote widely condemned as rigged.
When the initial 12-month period ended in March this year, the body announced that the southern African country's suspension would remain in place until December.
Mbeki and Obasanjo, are the two African representatives on a troika chaired by Australia and tasked with overseeing the Commonwealth's response to alleged human rights violations in Zimbabwe. Both opposed extension of the sanctions. -News24/AFP
- News24
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