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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8153

18 February 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/acp/zimbabwe
Council decides to immediately impose targeted sanctions

Brussels, 18/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - Three weeks from the presidential elections to be held on 9 and 10 March in Zimbabwe, the Foreign Ministers of the EU15 decided, on Monday, by unanimity, to formally close consultations between the Union and this country, to impose "targeted sanctions" on its leading elite and to carry out withdrawal of all Union observers still in place in Harare. Sanctions consist in the freeze of assets held abroad and of visas for travelling to the Union of 20...

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