Zimbabwe

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:57 pm on 3 November 2008.

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Photo of Lord Avebury Lord Avebury Spokesperson in the Lords (Civil Liberties), Home Affairs, Spokesperson in the Lords (Africa), Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs 2:57, 3 November 2008

My Lords, it is good news that the SADC summit will be held in the near future under the chairmanship of President Motlanthe, who, after all, had direct personal experience of the situation in Zimbabwe when he was head of a COSATU delegation a couple of years ago. Will the summit be able to consider the complete breakdown of humanitarian efforts in Zimbabwe, which has arisen from a trillion per cent inflation rate, the regime's theft of $7.3 million from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and other hindrances that have been imposed on international humanitarian efforts?