Commonwealth in dilemma over Zim - The Standard
Its findings are now being drafted in an “informal assessment report,” but the process is veiled in complete secrecy.
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Its findings are now being drafted in an “informal assessment report,” but the process is veiled in complete secrecy.
Canada, too, is declining to say whether Zimbabwe should be readmitted to the Commonwealth, although its diplomats have been discussing the issue informally for months.
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ZIMBABWE is now most likely to be readmitted into the Commonwealth following positive recommendations from a fact-finding team that visited the country last year, with politicians from influential Western countries such as Britain and Canada conceding its readmission is inevitable. A Commonwealth delegation led by the organisation’s Assistant Secretary-General, Professor Luis Franceschi, that visited Zimbabwe…
JOHANNESBURG - After allowing a wave of authoritarian regimes to become members in recent years, the Commonwealth and member states such as Canada are now pondering one of their toughest dilemmas: whether to approve Zimbabwe’s bid to rejoin their club. By Geoffrey York The timing would be awkward. As he prepares for an election this…