Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 01:09:16 -0700
To: "Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List":;
From: Zimbabwe Crisis
Subject: ZimCrisis#145 -- Finally! UK Government Action Against Mugabe
Hi everyone,
I'm not sure of the date on this story (as the link below wasn't actually working when I tried it), but I only received it yesterday. Nice to see British government hypocrisy being reversed for a change.
Craig
Visit original page at LineOne:
http://www.lineone.net/cgi-bin/loadcontent.pl?page=/cgi-bin/drecgi/express/00/07/26/news/n2340-d.html
Hain returns fire over Labour's arms sales
BY SARAH WOMACK
FOREIGN Office Minister Peter Hain, stung by criticism of Government weapons exports, insisted yesterday that action had been taken to correct mistakes such as the sale of spare parts for Hawk jets to Zimbabwe.
His response came after a parliamentary inquiry said the issuing of licences for arms sales to Zimbabwe had undermined a Europe-wide resolution and "seems to have been a breach of the UK's criteria on arms exports".
Mr Hain said the Government was willing to consider prior parliamentary scrutiny of arms licences. He added that the Government did not approve arms sales for internal repression or external aggression.
The licences for the Hawk jet parts were revoked in May when Britain imposed an arms embargo on Zimbabwe after accusing President Robert Mugabe of stirring up "conditions of crisis". MPs from Commons cross-party defence and foreign affairs committees said there had been a "disturbing degree of muddle and confusion" in the matter. They argued that Zimbabwe should have been taken off a list of permitted destinations for arms exports much earlier.
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook came under fire earlier this year over the Hawk contracts because of Zimbabwe's involvement in fighting in the Congo.
© Express Newspapers, 2000
Craig
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- Movement for Democratic Change -- http://www.in2zw.com/mdc
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To: "Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List":;
From: Zimbabwe Crisis
Subject: ZimCrisis#145 -- Finally! UK Government Action Against Mugabe
Hi everyone,
I'm not sure of the date on this story (as the link below wasn't actually working when I tried it), but I only received it yesterday. Nice to see British government hypocrisy being reversed for a change.
Craig
Visit original page at LineOne:
http://www.lineone.net/cgi-bin/loadcontent.pl?page=/cgi-bin/drecgi/express/00/07/26/news/n2340-d.html
Hain returns fire over Labour's arms sales
BY SARAH WOMACK
FOREIGN Office Minister Peter Hain, stung by criticism of Government weapons exports, insisted yesterday that action had been taken to correct mistakes such as the sale of spare parts for Hawk jets to Zimbabwe.
His response came after a parliamentary inquiry said the issuing of licences for arms sales to Zimbabwe had undermined a Europe-wide resolution and "seems to have been a breach of the UK's criteria on arms exports".
Mr Hain said the Government was willing to consider prior parliamentary scrutiny of arms licences. He added that the Government did not approve arms sales for internal repression or external aggression.
The licences for the Hawk jet parts were revoked in May when Britain imposed an arms embargo on Zimbabwe after accusing President Robert Mugabe of stirring up "conditions of crisis". MPs from Commons cross-party defence and foreign affairs committees said there had been a "disturbing degree of muddle and confusion" in the matter. They argued that Zimbabwe should have been taken off a list of permitted destinations for arms exports much earlier.
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook came under fire earlier this year over the Hawk contracts because of Zimbabwe's involvement in fighting in the Congo.
© Express Newspapers, 2000
Craig
Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List
http://www.niner.net/zimcrisis
This is currently a manually administered mailing list. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send your request to DELETED. Personal requests for removal will be carried out immediately. Requests from governmental, political or press organisations (or their representatives) will be treated less favourably. The purpose of this list is not necessarily to redistribute published news reports. Rather, it is intended to distribute reports from or directly affecting people in Zimbabwe. If you have seen something before, I apologise. Hopefully that will not be a regular occurrence. Any reports from respondents that are relayed to the mailing list will be done so anonymously.
Brief list of helpful sites on the issue:
- Zimbabwe Crisis mailing list archives -- http://www.niner.net/zimcrisis
- Comprehensive news updates -- http://www.1freespace.com/beetee
- Offers of and requests for help for Zimbabweans -- http://pub9.ezboard.com/boffersofhelp
- Commercial Farmers' Union -- http://www.mweb.co.zw/cfu
- Movement for Democratic Change -- http://www.in2zw.com/mdc
- Zimbabwe Democracy Trust -- http://www.zimbabwedemocracytrust.org
- BSAP Pursuit of Zimbabwean Criminals -- http://www.bsaphq.f9.co.uk
