Sanctions Motion Finally Read in Zimbabwean Parliament

Harare — MWENEZI East legislator Cde Kudakwashe Bhasikiti (Zanu-PF), yesterday finally managed to give notice to move a motion calling on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy PM Arthur Mutambara to engage Western countries to remove the illegal sanctions they imposed on Zimbabwe.




Cde Bhasikiti tried to give notice to move the motion on Wednesday, but was disrupted by rowdy MDC-T MPs, leading to the House's premature adjournment.



Yesterday, MDC-T representatives again attempted to disrupt Cde Bhasikiti while he read his notice and his voice was at one point drowned by the noise made by the legislators.



Part of the motion "calls upon the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara to engage the EU, the British and the American governments to urgently and unconditionally remove illegal sanctions imposed, at their instigation on the Government and people of Zimbabwe as confessed in the British parliament by the Foreign Affairs Secretary Mr David Miliband".



The House will debate the motion anytime now.

* Herald