EU seeks to renew Zimbabwe ties

Brussels, 10 Sept-(ANA)-Senior EU officials will visit Zimbabwe this weekend to push for progress that could deliver a normalisation of ties.

It will be the first such visit since the EU imposed sanctions targeting Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and his top aides in 2002.

This week southern African leaders urged the international community to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe, now that it has a power-sharing government.

The EU's aid commissioner and a Swedish minister will head the EU team.

EU officials stress that it is far too soon to talk about lifting sanctions immediately. They say it is just a preparatory visit, to re-establish a political dialogue. (ANA)

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