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UN resolution to name and shame Mugabe associates, Brown

Posted : Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:20:05 GMT
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Toyako, Japan - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that a UN Security Council resolution proposed by Britain and the United States against Zimbabwe will name 14 top members of Robert Mugabe's regime. The 14 would face a world-wide travel ban and asset freeze, Brown said. It was as yet unclear whether the list also included Mugabe himself.

Speaking at the end of a Group of Eight (G8) summit in Toyako, Japan, Brown said that despite resistance from some quarters, he was confident that there would be enough UN support for the resolution, which also calls for an arms embargo on the country.

There will be "no safe haven and no hiding" for those responsible for the violence in Zimbabwe, Brown said.

"We know who these people are and we are naming them today," he added.

Brown, who is said to have shown his G8 colleagues s

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