{"id":9377,"date":"2013-08-20T08:15:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T08:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2013-08-20T08:29:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T08:29:34","slug":"un-lifting-zim-sanctions-a-matter-for-individual-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9377","title":{"rendered":"UN: Lifting Zim sanctions a matter for individual states"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9379\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bankimoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9379\" alt=\"Ban Ki-moon\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bankimoon.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bankimoon.jpg 298w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bankimoon-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 85vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ban Ki-moon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the lifting of targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe is a matter for individual member states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was responding to a question during a brief press encounter with journalists at the UN Headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Any sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe need to be discussed and done by the member states and intergovernmental bodies. I have been urging the government of Zimbabwe and President Robert Mugabe himself, on many occasions, that there should be fair and credible elections and for a democratic process in Zimbabwe,&#8221; says Ban.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He says that there should be full respect for human rights and they should work on improving the well-being of the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, statements by the UN called for the country&#8217;s leadership to govern responsibly and inclusively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have taken note of elections which were held recently. I know that there have been some assessments by different groups of monitors and I hope that all these controversies or current assessment should fully reflect the will of the people in line with international democratic principles,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both the European Union (EU) and the United States have called for credible elections as a precursor to lifting sanctions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the United States says it will only lift sanctions on Zimbabwe&#8217;s newly re-elected President Robert Mugabe if he implements political reforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, southern African leaders called for the West to lift sanctions against Harare as they gave their seal of approval to Mugabe&#8217;s victory in disputed elections. However, Washington was unimpressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In March 2003, the United States imposed sanctions on Mugabe and his relatives. &#8211; SABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the lifting of targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe is a matter for individual member states. He was responding to a question during a brief press encounter with journalists at the UN Headquarters in New York. &#8220;Any sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe need to be discussed and done by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UN: Lifting Zim sanctions a matter for individual states&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,123],"tags":[3515,1061,1415,5289,180],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","category-world","tag-ban-ki-moon","tag-sanctions","tag-un","tag-united-nations-un-secretary-general-ban-ki-moon","tag-zimbabwe"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bankimoon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9383,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions\/9383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}