- Title: ZIMBABWE: U.N. ENVOY ARRIVES IN HARARE
- Date: 26th June 2005
- Summary: (BN06) HARARE, ZIMBABWE (JUNE 26, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. CU PULL OUT EXTERIOR OF HARARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 0.10 2. SV ANNA TIBAIJUKA, DIRECTOR OF U.N. HABITAT AND U.N. SPECIAL ENVOY, WALKING WITH DELEGATION 0.25 3. MCU (English) ANNA TIBAIJUKA, DIRECTOR OF U.N. HABITAT AND U.N. SPECIAL ENVOY, SAYING: "I am here as you might have heard at the request of the Secretary-General to assess the situation here and see how we can work together to put everything in the way everyone would want to have them, right. So I am here at the invitation of government which has accepted this mission." 0.49 4. MCU (English) TIBAIJUKA SAYING: "We are basically looking at the operation; you call it 'Murabatsvina'(Restore Order)? Yes, the operation which is taking place here and to see the impact how we can work together to assist all those affected. The Secretary General of course is following the situation with keen interest." 1.09 5. MCU (English) TIBAIJUKA SAYING: "I think we are here for some days it will take us to go round to see what has been happening and am sure the government will take us around the people to meet different stakeholders so we are going to be here for several days." 1.28 6. SLV/SV TIBAIJUKA AND DELEGATION WALKING FROM AIRPORT (2 SHOTS) 1.48 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: HARARE, ZIMBABWE
- Country: Zimbabwe
- Reuters ID: LVAL4RIN6LGBGT2GME2K3X2LN4E
- Story Text: U.N. envoy arrives in Harare following outcry over
forced removal of thousands of urban poor.
A special envoy of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
arrived in Zimbabwe on Sunday (June 26, 2005) on an assessment
trip amid a mounting global outcry over President Robert
Mugabe's crackdown on illegal shantytowns.
Anna Tibaijuka, the executive director of UN-HABITAT,
the global body's housing agency, will spend several days
observing the results of "Operation Restore Order," a
clean-up campaign that has demolished tens of thousands of
homes and shops and left as many as 300,000 people
homeless.
"I am here as you might have heard at the request of
the Secretary-General to assess the situation here and see
how we can work together to put everything in the way
everyone would want to have them -- right. So I am here at
the invitation of government which has accepted this
mission," Tibaijuka told reporters.
"We are basically looking at the operation; you call
it 'Murabatsvina'(Restore Order)? Yes, the operation which
is taking place here and to see the impact how we can
work together to assist all those affected. The Secretary
General of course is following the situation with keen
interest," she said.
Tibaijuka's trip comes as Western countries ramp up
their criticism of the operation, which has seen at least
two children crushed to death in demolished houses and
deprived countless families of housing or income.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw last week accused
Mugabe of perpetrating a "horror" on his own people, while
European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso
chided the African Union on Saturday for failing to take a
strong enough stance on Zimbabwe's human rights record.
Mugabe, whom critics accuse of using the campaign to
target political opponents in Zimbabwe's urban shantytowns,
has said he welcomed the chance to explain the operation to
the U.N.
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