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US sanctions could prompt “emergency measures”

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwe may be forced to adopt “emergency measures” if the United States imposed sanctions against the country, Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge was quoted as saying on Thursday.

    “The government would have to take emergency measures to survive. Doesn’t that normally lead to the suspension of certain democratic devices so that the country can survive?” he asked. “It’s a shocking piece of legislation because it seeks to interfere in the sovereign affairs of Zimbabwe,” Mudenge told a press conference.

    in the US Congress would punish the Zimbabwe government with economic sanctions for failing to curb lawlessness. Known as the Zimbabwe Democracy Act, the bill would also instruct US executive directors of the multinational lending institutions to oppose credits to Zimbabwe.

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