After being trounced in the last elections Mugabe doesn't have a democratic mandate to represent Zimbabwe. Yet he still turns up regularly and brazenly at the UN, making a mockery of that august body's insistence for rogue states to embrace free and fair elections.
Why should other despotic rulers in other countries with little strategic significance bother to reform, whilst Mugabe still freely struts the world stage: whether it be at the UN in New York or the Vatican in Rome? – MIKE ROOK, by e-mail