Britain, U.S. Push for Mugabe Travel Ban
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Rusutsu, Japan — Prime Minister Brown of Britain, vowed to punish the “criminal cabal” running Zimbabwe yesterday as Britain and America urged the United Nations to impose a global travel ban on President Mugabe and 13 allies.
A draft resolution preventing Zimbabwe’s leaders from crossing any international frontier and freezing their overseas assets was submitted to the U.N. Security Council. America and the European Union already have the measures in place. The new proposal would make them global.
The prime minister won agreement for the move during the G-8 summit on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. A vote on the draft resolution, co-sponsored by Britain and America, is expected later this week. The G-8 includes four of the Security Council’s five permanent members and British diplomats are confident that they can win the nine votes needed for the 15-member body to approve a resolution.
Mr. Brown said that Zimbabwe’s crisis had been “at the center” of his agenda and the other leaders had agreed on these “new sanctions against an illegitimate regime which has blood on its hands.”
