SADC leaders on Sunday urged Western nations to drop all sanctions against Zimbabwe because of the polls, which saw Mugabe being re-elected as Zimbabwe’s President.
But US state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the poll "did not represent a credible expression of the will of the Zimbabwean people".
Speaking during a press briefing on Monday, Psaki said:
“The United States stands by our assessment that these elections, while relatively peaceful, did not represent a credible expression of the will of the Zimbabwean people due to serious flaws throughout the electoral process, as highlighted by the regional and domestic monitors. So our position, of course, is not the same.”
Psaki added that a change will occur “only in a context of credible, transparent, peaceful reforms that reflect the will of the Zimbabwean people.”
“That is how we make our decisions and the prism we, of course, make them through. Of course, we are always concerned about the suffering of any people, certainly the people of Zimbabwe, but that’s how we make our decisions. And if those changes are made, then we’ll certainly conduct a review,” Paski said. – SW Radio Africa News
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This sanctions of USA is only for poor people.Who could not go out of the country to buy food or any thing they want to use or eat and those who are small business man. Not big people like MR BITI,P MUGABE,M STWANGIRAI, and some other big people they are not in sanction`s.Human rights is it fair that you are doing for us poor people in Zimbabwe big people they can go out to have what ever they want,how about me sanction who is poor.I don`t know why?But is how life of a poor is on sanctions.Remove that sanction out of us poor we need life as you are doing Big business man and other big people USA please you have to see this sanctions is not good for us poor.