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Text of report by London-based Zimbabwe independent SW Radio Africa on 21 December
[Report by Alex Bell: "MDC Campaigning for Targeted Sanctions Removal"]
The MDC [Movement for Democratic Change] has admitted that it is actively campaigning for the removal of some of the targeted sanctions placed against Robert Mugabe's regime, just weeks after saying the full terms of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) had to be implemented first.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's office, Gorden Moyo, said last Friday that the unity government, of which the MDC is part, was trying to persuade the European Union to suspend the targeted measures imposed on some of the 40 companies on the sanctions list. Moyo told a meeting organized by the Bulawayo Agenda that it was time the sanctions were reviewed, in line with the new political dispensation, despite that same dispensation remaining in political limbo over key, outstanding issues in the GPA.
Companies included on the targeted sanctions list include parastatals such as the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO), the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) and the Zimbabwe Defence Industries. Moyo said one of the reasons some of the parastatals were included on the list was because they were used by the previous administration...