Mugabe meets Iranian President (26-09-07)

t at a meeting where issues related to HIV and Aids and global warming are set to take the centre stage, are attending the summit amid concerns that they are the world’s worst respecters of human rights.
Iran is involved in a diplomatic war with the United States of America over its nuclear enrichment programme, while Zimbabwe is on the wrong side of the law in terms of respect for human rights, good governance and respect for the rule of the law.
Mugabe is scheduled to address the UN today (WEDNESDAY).
According to Zimbabwe’s U.N. ambassador, Boniface Chidyausiku, Mugabe will make the case to the assembly that the U.S. Zimbabwe Democracy Act has prevented international institutions and private investors from bringing capital to Zimbabwe.
Chidyausiku said that if the United States, Britain and other Western nations sincerely wanted to help the Zimbabwean people, they should stop shedding ‘crocodile tears’ and lift the sanctions, which he said were the main cause of growing poverty.
U.S. and other Western officials have often stated that the sanctions are targeted at Mugabe and senior officials of his government and the ruling Zanu PF, barring them from traveling in most European Union member states and America.
The sanctions also prohibit commerce with Zimbabwean companies controlled by individuals on the sanctions list.