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  • Zimbabwe warns summit to back off - 'We won't be dictated to by kangaroos from Australia'

    09/01/2002 6:06:00 PM PDT · by StopGlobalWhining · 14 replies · 173+ views
    Sunday Times of New Zealand ^ | Sunday 01 Sep 2002 | RANJENI MUNUSAMY
    ZIMBABWE has demanded that Western governments stop using the World Summit on Sustainable Development as a platform to attack it. Zimbabwean Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, who was reappointed to his Cabinet post by President Robert Mugabe this week, said Western governments were giving "strange interpretations" to issues in order to direct attention to Zimbabwe. He said while the summit was dealing with the controversial issue of land tenure, this was "not a Zimbabwean issue". " It is really strange that some people are trying to interpret that particular provision as dealing with Zimbabwe to direct attention to us," Moyo told...