Posted on 02/21/2003 2:43:13 PM PST by nypokerface
Paris - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, whose presence at a Franco-African summit here sparked a global outcry, on Friday told French radio he "felt at home" in Paris and praised French President Jacques Chirac for inviting him.
"We've had tremendous hospitality, we felt at home," Mugabe told Radio France Internationale (RFI). "We leave with a very good impression of France."
"Chirac insisted that we attend because some members of the EU didn't want Mugabe to attend," the Zimbabwean leader told RFI, speaking of himself in the third person.
"He put his foot down on principles," he added, noting that the world needed leaders of great stature such as Chirac.
Mugabe was only able to attend the summit after Chirac obtained a waiver to a EU travel ban on the Zimbabwean leader, defending the invitation as a way to confront him face-to-face over human rights abuses and lawlessness in his famine-ridden southern African country.
"It has been an excellent summit indeed," Mugabe told RFI. - Sapa-AFP
Translation: crimminal convention
You really don't want to be inserting yourself into the big picture right now.
But then again, I intensely dislike tyrants, and you are on the same hotsheet with Saddam; it's just that we were trying to . . .
Oh well. Never mind. Just make sure your last will and testament are in order.
Celebrating murdering, racist, communist dictators does show a stunning lack of respect for principles.
Who's this "we" stuff...him and the necklaced mouse in his pocket?
FMCDH
With all those white landowners. Get out of the city! LOL!!!!
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