Zimbabwe: CHOGM: Mugabe Bluffs Commonwealth

29 November 2003

Harare — President Robert Mugabe said, yesterday, that Zimbabwe was prepared to give up its membership to the Commonwealth if it was not treated as an equal, hinting he was still waiting for an invitation to the 54-member grouping's summit meeting next week.

"If our sovereignty is what we have to lose to be readmitted into the Commonwealth, well, we will say goodbye to the Commonwealth, and perhaps time has now come to say so," Mugabe said in a eulogy at a funeral of a former nationalist, which was broadcast on state radio.

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