Mutambara said the decision to expel the Libyan charge de affairs was an executive one. Ambassador Taher Elmagrahi joined protesters who stormed the embassy and raised the pre-Gaddafi flag. He was given his marching orders by the foreign office.
"The current position in the country is that we have not recognised the regime in Libya," Mutambara said. "If that is the position of Zimbabwe, it is difficult for us to have an Ambassador who now switches sides to a regime that we have not recognised as a country.”
Speaker Lovemore Moyo stepped in when the legislators refused to allow Mutambara to continue.
"In Zimbabwe, we are one of the 41, rightly or wrongly, who has not recognised the new regime in Libya," Mutambara said. "That decision not to recognise the National Transition Council in Libya must be the decision of all of us together so that we can say as the Zimbabwean government we do not recognise the NTC.”
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