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The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday gave Zimbabwe conditional support for its controversial land reform programme and said Harare must settle differences over the issue with former colonial power Britain.
Annan, according to a UN statement, was speaking after meeting with four African leaders, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Bakili Muluzi of Malawi, Sam Nujoma of Namibia and Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, at the UN headquarters in New York where a Millennium Summit is underway.
The statement said Annan and the four leaders “recognised the urgent need for such land reform as well as the sovereign responsibility of Zimbabwe to implement a credible programme”. It added that the five men also recognised the responsibility of the international community “to assist Zimbabwe’s government”.
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