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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's President on Thursday berated the U.S. , Britain and its allies for trying to control his nation and its resources.
"Shame, shame, shame to the U.S. Shame, shame, shame to Britain and its allies," Mugabe, said in a speech to the UN General Assembly.
"Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans, so are its resources. Please remove your illegal and filthy sanctions from my peaceful country".
"Our small and peaceful country is threatened daily by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources know no bounds," he said.
He said that if the sanctions were intended to unseat him from power "the results of the recent national elections have clearly shown you what they can do".
The U.S. and EU imposed sanctions on Zimbabwean state firms and travel restrictions on Mugabe and dozens of his associates after a violent 2000 election, and at the start of sometimes violent seizures of white-owned commercial farms for black resettlement.
Mugabe said that the sanctions imposed by the EU and the U.S. violated the UN Charter on state sovereignty and condemned them as a "foreign-policy tool to effect regime change".
Mugabe said the U.S. was determined to continue its "relentless persecution" of Zimbabwe, even though the AU and other regional organisations had supported the election result.
"It appears that when the U.S. and its allies speak of democracy and freedom they are doing so only in relative terms," Mugabe said.
"Zimbabwe, however, refuses to accept that these Western detractors have the right to define democracy and freedom for us.
Mugabe also swore that Zimbabwe will never be a colony again. (NAN)
