Browne and Mugabe
Posted Nov 6, 2007 in the International-Organizations category.
PM Gordon Brown´s threat not to come to the EU/AU summit if Mugabes will attend, raises interesting questions like: \r\nshould there be generally a point of excluding a person from an international meeting and: who defines such a point? Certainly a lot of politicians are doing things which can be criticized but the exclusion of a head of state from an international conference is of another quality. Another question: how do/will other African state leaders react? Will they protest because such an act might also endagers them, if there democratic record might have also flaws? Or will they agree since they regard Mugabe also as awful? Unfortunately democracy is not taken thoroughly serious in a lot of countries. So: where is the line when tolerance turns to become appeasement? The decisive thing seems less what the PM of UK says but what African leaders themselves are saying.