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"Mr President, Mr Mugabe claimed a diplomatic victory at Lisbon in that he had ‘defeated the British’. In a way he was right. Instead of attending the conference himself, Gordon Brown sent Baroness Amos, who is, with no disrespect to the Baroness, a relatively minor figure in the British Government. In the same way, he will send his errand boy, Mr Miliband, off to Lisbon on Thursday to sign up to the Lisbon Treaty.
It fell to Angela Merkel to rebuke Mr Mugabe with wonderful, almost British understatement that ‘Zimbabwe damages the image of the new Africa’. Well, you could certainly say that!
Mr Brown should have attended the conference and taken the opportunity to tell Mr Mugabe to his face that he is a bloodthirsty tyrant who has no place in the modern community of civilised nations. That would have given heart to oppressed Zimbabweans, and it would also have required real leadership – which is precisely why it did not happen."@en1
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