(HERALD) West, MDC-T stalling constitution making process — Khaya Moyo

West, MDC-T stalling constitution making process — Khaya Moyo
Saturday, 23 July 2011 02:00
Herald Reporter

WESTERN countries that imposed illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe are working
with the MDC-T to stall the constitution making process, Zanu-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo has said. Smelling defeat, Cde Khaya Moyo said, the MDC-T and the Western countries wanted to delay general elections in the country by influencing financiers not to release money.

He made the remarks after meeting Palestinian Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Hashim Dajani at the Zanu-PF headquarters in Harare yesterday. Said Cde Khaya Moyo: "The Minister of Finance Tendai Biti is also following his masters' dirty tricks by refusing to release funds for the constitution making process.

"The constitution making process came out with the views from the people, which are in line with Zanu-PF's position and now the MDC-T is afraid of going for elections this year fearing defeat. The MDC-T is therefore coming up with all sorts of delaying tactics to avoid elections."

He reiterated that Zanu-PF would stand by the resolutions made at last year's conference in Mutare that elections should be held this year.

He urged all Sadc countries to be united as the Western "dirty tricks" were not targeted at Zimbabwe alone but the whole southern region.

"Like they are doing to Zimbabwe, the United States of America is not the honest broker it proclaims itself to be. It supports illegal Israeli policies financially, militarily and diplomatically and all rhetoric to the contrary aside, it has long rejected the Palestinians' right to self-determination," he said.

He castigated Britian's move to allocate three million pounds to the private media through the Department for International Development aimed at attacking Zanu-PF and President Mugabe.

He pledged that Zimbabwe would continue supporting Palestine in its bid to become a Palestinian state when the United Nations General Assembly meets in September.

"The US wants to respond by cutting or eliminating aid that the Palestine authority has come to depend on to function. The Palestinians must not bow down to such threats and the Palestinian people must take their case to the UN, if their legitimate political aspirations are ever to be achieved.

"The US and Israel have sought to entice the Palestinian leadership to back away from their 1988 declaration of independence and to prevent the establishment of a viable, independent and fully sovereign state in Palestine," he said.

He urged Ambassador Hashim to have meetings with leaders of former liberation movements in the Sadc region and exchange notes to gain their advice and support.
Cde Khaya Moyo said Ambassador Hashim had expressed gratitude to the support they received from Zanu-PF adding that his country would not allow foreign countries like the US to dictate to them how to run their country.