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Britain will not insist on sending election monitors

    JOHANNESBURG

    British Foreign Office Minister Peter Hain said on Monday that his government would not insist on sending election observes to Zimbabwe, after President Robert Mugabe had said that Britons should be kept out of any Commonwealth or European Union observer mission.

    “President Robert Mugabe has a fascinating paranoia with Britain. I don’t think we want to let him make an issue of the composition of the EU or Commonwealth group of observers,” Hain was quoted in news reports as saying.

    Jonathan Moyo, chief strategist of ZANU-PF told IRIN on Tuesday: “This is not the first time that Mr Hain has gone overboard. For some time now Mr Hain has had his mouth shut. But each time he opens it and refers to Zimbabwe, it is a disaster. It should be obvious by now that the Zimbabwe leadership has no regard for Mr Hain.”

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