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Pan African Parly defers decision on Zimbabwe mission
Xinhua
May 19, 2007

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HARARE, May 19 (Xinhua) - The Pan African Parliament has deferred to November the adoption of a resolution on a motion calling upon the House to send a fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe to probe alleged human rights abuses this year as more time was needed to consider the issue, The Herald said on Saturday.

The continental assembly's bureau said it needed time to study the Zimbabwean motion together with other recommendations put forward during the two-week ordinary session that ended on Friday. PAP president Getrude Mongella of Tanzania told the House that only urgent resolutions had to be adopted.

She said many issues were debated during the session but some of them had been overtaken by events after having been either discussed by the African Union executive council or at other continental or regional fora.

Mongella said the continental parliament's bureau must be given time to cross-check on some of the issues that had been raised during debate before the resolutions were brought for adoption in the House.

The deferment of the adoption of the resolution on the motion on Zimbabwe effectively means that the PAP would have to wait until the next ordinary session in November to resolve on whether the continental parliament should send a fact-finding mission to the country.

The motion was moved by South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party Member of Parliament Suzanne Vos and seconded by Botswana opposition party Boyce Sebetela last week.

A total of 149 MPs voted in favor of the motion while 20 voted against with three other legislators abstaining.

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