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Article: Fed: CHOGM to be pressed for Zimbabwe election monitors
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- September 27, 2001
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AAP General News (Australia)
09-27-2001
Fed: CHOGM to be pressed for Zimbabwe election monitors
CANBERRA, Sept 27 AAP - Australia needed to press the Commonwealth Heads of Government
Meeting (CHOGM) to push for monitors in Zimbabwe to ensure a free and fair election there,
MPs were told today.
A delegation from Zimbabwe, including farmer Vernon Nicolle, journalist Benhilda Chanetsa
and economist John Robertson, said sanctions against Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe
may be needed if next year's election was rigged.
Members of the group met government and opposition MPs to highlight the situation in
Zimbabwe, where Mr Mugabe has seized white-owned farms and returned them to so-called
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