Summit cancelled after Britain bans Mugabe henchmen

[ConcernedCanuk]

, , A summit of international leaders in London next year, due to be opened by the Queen and addressed by Nelson Mandela, has been cancelled after the Government barred members of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwean regime.

A dispute in the Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU), set up in the 1890s to promote world co-operation and peace, has led to the withdrawal of next year's annual conference from Britain in March, after several years of planning.

The Foreign Office refused to break an EU travel ban on named members of Mr Mugabe's disgraced regime. Officials said they would not grant visas to associates of Mr Mugabe, including his right-hand man, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mr Mnangagwa, a former head of the state security services, helped to plan an invasion of Matabeleland to crush opposition Zapu rebelsin which some 50,000 people died



Our world be in a real Mess !

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