Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan refused entry visas to Zimbabwe

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:49 AM EST

Article Source: Guardian Unlimited

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The former United States president Jimmy Carter said today that he and others planning a humanitarian mission in Zimbabwe had been refused entry to the country.

Carter and two other members of The Elders group, the former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan and the human rights advocate Graca Machel, who is married to Nelson Mandela, had planned to assess the country's humanitarian needs as Zimbabweans face disease and hunger while the political crisis occupies its politicians.

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Dave Wiatrowski

It's about time that some country refuses to deal with these "do gooder" bozo's who keep sticking their noses into other peoples business. Jimmy needs to tend his peanuts and the UN needs to be sent packing preferably out of the US.

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#1 - Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:59 AM EST

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dcuben

Mr. Mugabe’s decision to forbid a humanitarian visit by Mr. Carter, former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela’s wife Graca Machel was a measure of the Zimbabwean leader’s disdain for international opinion at a time when deepening hunger, raging hyperinflation and the collapse of health, sanitation and education services have crippled Zimbabwe.

I guess Mugabe is afraid that they might talk some sense into him, and ... he could never stand for that.

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#2 - Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:28 AM EST

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Red Wolf

There's no chance of talking sense into Mugabe, but there is a chance of getting him over a barrel and demanding concessions for Zimbabweans if talks are arranged, so it's not in his interested as dictator for life to allow that to happen.

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#2.1 - Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:59 PM EST

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Malcolm H

, is Zimbabwe YOUR business, for you to decide where others should not put their noses?

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1 vote

#3 - Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:19 AM EST

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Red Wolf

I think perhaps that Dave got as far as reading "Jimmy Carter" and his rant reflex kicked in preventing him from reading anything else.

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1 vote

#3.1 - Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:54 PM EST

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