Posted on 07/12/2008 5:35:08 AM PDT by Nextrush
Britain and the US have condemned Russia and China for vetoing a draft UN Security Council resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe's leaders.
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the veto was incomprehensible. The US said it brought into question Russia's reliability as a G8 partner.
Zimbabwe and its main ally South Africa welcomed the result.
Zimbabwe's Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu described the resolution as a Western plot and welcomed its rejecton....
There has been growing international criticism of Zibabwe since the re-election of Mr. Mugabe in a run-off boycotted by the opposition.
The opposition's Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change party say they had faced a campaign of violence by Mugabe supporters, which left dozens dead and thousands injured and forced from their homes....
The US Ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalizad, said Russia'sveto raised "questions about its reliability as a G8 partner."
Mr. Miliband said Moscow and Beijing had sent mixed signals about their intentions...
Russia and China defended their stance, saying the situation in Zimbabwe posed no threat to international stability.
The proposed measures had included an arms embargo and a travel ban for President Robert Mugabe and 13 of his key allies.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the veto was incomprehensible. The US said it brought into question Russia's reliability as a G8 partner.
Question Russia but not China? I question The US ruling elite for remaining a major funder to the UN.
China has too much of a stake in Mugabe’s success to inconvenience him (which is all this pathetic UN resolution would do anyway), Russia has been alienated by every other major Country on Earth and thus has a ‘rebel, us against the World’ attitude, and it looks like South Africa will be the next Zimbabwe.
We don’t rely on Russia for diapers and other man made items.
Thank to Walmart, we have destroyed Mom and Pop stores and replaced them with a Chinese dumping grounds.
The Unions also helped with the thug like tactics that makes owning a business in the USA a bad deal, and dont even get me started on the Libs that taxes the living crap out of business owners.
As I've said before, Russia doesn't belong in the G8 anyway, since it is for democracies. The Russians should be kicked out of the G8.
why bother?
the chinese are going to get the lion’s share of resources out of africa,
unless u.s. corporations change.
the africans do not want americans and europeans involved, saying “it’s post-colonialism”.
so, leave africa to africans and bono bozo.
They are right in as much as the threat to international stability is concerned. The sanctions were proposed as feel good measures, some public hand wringing, to show the appropriate amount of care.
The people of Zimbabwe made their own bed when they first elected their President, who told them straight out he was for "Land Reform". The west was all smitten with his noble idea of "Land Reform". All the while they all knew "Land Reform" was just a code word for kicking out the whites. White guilt possessed by some prevented saying what was destined to be so obvious.
Do I really care or lose sleep over what happens in Zim? No. Would I like to see things get better? Sure why not?
Russia and China got this one right.
Russia and China never met a thug dictator they didn’t support. The Security Council is becoming useless.
The situation in Rwanda was no threat either and millions died.
If the UN cannot do anything about mass murder on the scale of millions, or the internal destruction, murder and rape of an entire country and its people, ala Pol Pot, then it needs to be disbanded and its leaders hanged in public.
Your post was pathetic
I am not the one who voted for a Marxist socialist government in Zim in the first place. Throw your insults their way. You know the responsible party. How is that for a concept? I feel not a bit of sympathy for those who elected Hamas to power either. If folks are going to vote, they have to take responsibility for it.
The situation in Zim is not a threat to international stability, no matter how tight you wring your hands in concern. It would not even mater if you furrow your eyebrows while doing so.
I did not lose a nights sleep over Rwanda, to be brutally honest, and I would bet a thousand bucks you did not either.
The simple fact is that most of the famine and mass murders in the world occur in places where socialism in its many variations has taken hold.
Outsiders are not going to force the people themselves in their form of self government, to respect the natural rights inherent in man. It has to come from within. We are trying to do this in a more civilized place such as Iraq, and it is hard to do.
The solution? A new dictator, who cleans house, and wants to do good for the people, paving the way for self government to grow.
Only a nut would depend upon the U.N.
Your tagname is perfect for the bunch we have in DC right now. Russia is an enemy of the US ——denydenydeny. China is an enemy of the US ——denydenydeny.
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