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Zimbabwe

Asked if the Prime Minister thought it was appropriate for British companies to invest money in Zimbabwe, the PMS said that the Foreign Secretary had dealt with this issue in his statement to the House of Commons earlier this week. Our general position on sanctions was that we kept all matters under review; we were discussing with our EU partners how we could tighten the sanction regime. We had always been very clear that the objectives of the sanctions regime should be primarily to prevent the regime in Zimbabwe from carrying out their undemocratic acts and to be mindful of the impact on the welfare of ordinary Zimbabweans.

Asked if the Prime Minister would discourage British investors from investing money into Zimbabwe, the PMS repeated that we kept the issue of sanctions on Zimbabwe under review. We were mindful of the impact on the humanitarian situation and did not want to see anything that propped up the regime in any way.

Asked for the Government’s response to suggestions from New York that South Africa should no longer host the 2010 World Cup, the PMS said that he had not seen that suggestion and that it was not the British Government’s position.

Asked if it was the case that the British Government would not recognise the outcome of the election in Zimbabwe now that the Movement for Democratic Change had pulled out, the PMS said that we had already made clear that we did not acknowledge the legitimacy of the current regime and we called for the results of the first round of the elections to be respected, as the UN Security Council statement had said on Monday.

Asked for the Government’s response to Morgan Tsvangirai’s comments about a military force in Zimbabwe, the PMS said that this had been dealt with yesterday and that Lord Malloch-Brown had made comments about this in recent days.

Asked if Zimbabwe would now be banned from playing in the Twenty-20 cricket World Cup, the PMS said that journalists could anticipate a written statement from Andy Burnham on this matter during the course of the day.

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