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Zimbabwe
Joint statement on Zimbabwe |
3 July 2008 The SADC Council of NGOs (SADC-CNGO), Southern African Trade Union Coordinating Council (SATUCC) & Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa (FOCISSA), representing broad membership in all SADC member states, are deeply concerned that the developments in Zimbabwe grossly undermines the regional community’s efforts to achieve regional integration and go against the spirit and objectives of the SADC Treaty. Presidential run-off elections and their outcome are illegitimate and cannot be the basis for any solution for Zimbabwe. These elections took place under the conditions of politically motivated violence, arrests & detention, brutality and intimidation, which resulted in one party, ZANU-PF, contesting against itself, and subjecting citizens into submissiveness through repression, torture, murder, detention and destruction of property. Our leaders have allowed the Zimbabwean situation to deteriorate to where it is today, despite the fact that President Robert Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF party violated, and continue to violate fundamental values and principles of the SADC Founding Treaty, African Union’s Constitutive Act and United Nation’s Charter in that:
We therefore call on SADC Heads of State & Governments to prevail on the government of Zimbabwe and President Robert Mugabe to:
Further call on SADC Heads of State and Governments to:
We believe that human rights, democracy, the rule of law and good governance, being the principles upon which SADC is founded should be strongly protected and that SADC Member States have an obligation to their citizens and the region to guarantee and protect these fundamental rights, and Zimbabwe has failed in all of these principles. SADC has an obligation in terms of Article 2 (2) of the Protocol on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation to:
We have reached a situation that, after almost ten years of mediation through “diplomatic means”, the situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated, and we need to act now - intervention is truly a matter of our last resort - before it is too late. We call for a consultative conference of Southern African civil society during July, in solidarity with Zimbabweans. The conference should explore concrete ways in which the Zimbabwean crisis can be ended, and given that mediations to date have failed to bear results, civil society has the responsibility to act. |
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