Mugabe arrives in Rome for UN food summit

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Related President Robert Mugabe arrived in Rome on Saturday for a United Nations summit on food, the Zimbabwe Telegraph has confirmed Under sanctions imposed in 2002, Mugabe is banned from visiting European Union countries, but the restriction does not apply to trips for international meetings. Mugabe and his 60-strong delegation arrived at , Fiumicino airport on a private flight to take part in the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s three-day World Summit on Food Security, which opens on Monday. In 2000, the , Zimbabwean leader launched an often violent land reform which have seen more than 4,000 white farmers forced off their land.This has been blamed for an , Economic meltdown that followed. Mugabe has defended the measures as a necessary redress to colonial-era imbalances, but the country has gone from being an exporter of food to depending on international aid for survival.

Published: Sun, 15th Nov 2009
Source: Zimbabwe Telegraph