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US
to lift Zimbabwe sanctions only after 'peaceful reforms’
Agence France-Presse
August 19, 2013
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130819/us-will-lift-mugabe-sanctions-only-after-reforms
The United States
will only lift sanctions on Zimbabwe's
newly re-elected President Robert Mugabe if he implements political
reforms, the US said Monday.
On Sunday, Southern
African leaders called for the West to lift sanctions against Harare
as they gave their seal of approval to Mugabe's victory in disputed
elections.
But Washington
was unimpressed.
"We have
made clear to the government of Zimbabwe and the region that a change
in US sanctions policy will occur only in a context of credible,
transparent, peaceful reforms that reflect the will of the Zimbabwean
people," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
"Our program
of targeted sanctions will remain in place as long as these conditions
continue to exist in Zimbabwe," she added.
In March 2003
the United States imposed sanctions on Mugabe and on a list of his
relatives.
Mugabe, Africa's
oldest leader at 89, first took the reins of a newly independent
Zimbabwe in 1980 as prime minister. He became president following
a constitutional amendment in 1987.
He will be sworn
in on Thursday for his seventh term, which will last five years.
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