Brussels, 14/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Council Presidency (Portugal) has released the following statement on behalf of the European Union:
"The European Union has learnt with concern of the moves by groups of ex-combatants to illegally occupy more than 200 farms in Zimbabwe.
It notes that such moves are spreading and sometimes involve damage to property, threats and violence that are unacceptable in a democratic country. Occupying farms in this way seriously undermines the right of...