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Gordon Brown has urged the UN to use the "full weight of the international community" to isolate the "illegitimate" state of Zimbabwe. | Gordon Brown has urged the UN to use the "full weight of the international community" to isolate the "illegitimate" state of Zimbabwe. |
In a statement to MPs on this week's G8 summit, he said there was a "growing international coalition for change". | In a statement to MPs on this week's G8 summit, he said there was a "growing international coalition for change". |
He also outlined G8 action on oil and food prices and climate change, including a target to halve global carbon emissions by 2050. | |
Tory leader David Cameron also hailed the "real progress" made on Zimbabwe. | Tory leader David Cameron also hailed the "real progress" made on Zimbabwe. |
And he praised Mr Brown for helping to ensure it was at the top of the agenda at the summit in Toyako, northern Japan. | |
But he urged more progress on an arms embargo and on sanctions against members of President Robert Mugabe's government. | |
"On sanctions against the regime and on not recognising the legitimacy of the government, real progress was made and he is to be congratulated on the role he played in that. | |
"The key is now to translate those words at the G8 into an effective UN resolution," said Mr Cameron. | |
'Major breakthrough' | |
The UN Security Council is preparing to vote on targeted UN sanctions against 14 named members of what Mr Brown called the "Mugabe cabal". | |
The prime minister said it was a "major breakthrough" that Russia agreed on the need for sanctions and that there were now plans to send an EU envoy to Zimbabwe. | |
He said the EU would have liked sanctions against a wider list of individuals but securing "internationally agreed sanctions" at the UN would be a "major prize". | |
"It is very important that the whole weight of the international community is behind the efforts to secure a transition in Zimbabwe," Mr Brown added. | |
"I believe time is short for doing that and it is very important that the UN pass its resolution as soon as possible, and I hope that all countries and all continents will come behind it." | |
Mr Brown also confirmed to Mr Cameron details concerning the deportation of failed asylum seekers who had come to Britain from Zimbabwe. | |
"No-one is being forced to return to Zimbabwe from the United Kingdom at this time. No-one," said Mr Brown. |
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