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Zimbabwe
Metro
July 02, 2008
http://zimbabwemetro.com/2008/07/02/mugabe-illegitimate-liberia/
Liberia's President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has said that the African Union must not recognize
the outcome of the June 27th elections in Zimbabwe and declare the
results unacceptable.
According to a government
statement Sirleaf made the comments at the closed door Session of
the African Union (AU) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, when she made
her intervention to colleagues during a closed session. She said
the international community should work with the Southern African
Development Community (SADC) to find a permanent solution to the
situation in Zimbabwe. She put forward Liberia as a case in point,
saying the 1985 election was endorsed by Africa and the world, which
frustrated the true will of the people of Liberia and subsequently
engendered a fourteen year civil war that left over two hundred
thousand persons dead.
The Liberian leader called
on the African Union to be courageous to say that 'all is
not well in Zimbabwe' and that the request by SADC for a postponement
of the June 27 Zimbabwean elections should be heeded.
The President reminded
Summit participants that the African Union Observer Mission declared
the June 27th elections fell short of the accepted AU standards,
and that this was a similar position taken by the Pan African Parliament
and the United Nations Security Council. She urged Summit participants
to take a firm stance as well: 'All these persons and institutions
cannot be wrong, cannot be conspiratorial as we may be made to believe,'
she stressed.
Johnson Sirleaf also
called for a peacekeeping mission in Zimbabwe as an early warning
system in order to monitor and prevent further escalation of the
crisis. She finally called on the AU be consistent with the standards
it promotes.
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