Embassy Talking Points

Published June 29, 2005

Britain 'Not Open For Business'

On June 22, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw chided the African Union for failing to recognize "the scale of horror" in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. But on June 27, British Prime Minster Tony Blair announced that he would not offer blanket asylum to Zimbabwean refugees. Mr. Blair was responding, in part, to a plea made by Bulwayo Archbishop Pius Ncube when he received...