HARARE (Bloomberg) \u2013The British government plans to reject a European Union decision to lift sanctions on the wife of the late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, suggesting its approach to financially targeting foreign individuals will diverge from the bloc\u2019s, the Sunday Telegraph reports.<\/p>\n
The U.K. suspended an order freezing the assets of Grace Mugabe after the EU\u2019s decision last week, because it\u2019s bound to follow the bloc\u2019s sanctions decisions until the Brexit transition period expires at year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n
Yet the British government disagreed with the decision and plans to reimpose sanctions on Mugabe once the transition period is over, the newspaper reported, without saying where it got the information.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the bloc renewed its arms embargo against Zimbabwe and will maintain a targeted assets-freeze against the state-controlled armaments company, Zimbabwe Defence Industries.<\/p>\n
Restrictive measures were initially introduced in 2002 in response to serious human rights violations by Mugabe\u2019s government.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office told the newspaper: \u201cWe did not agree with the EU\u2019s decision to suspend these sanctions on Grace Mugabe. At the end of the transition period we will review it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HARARE (Bloomberg) \u2013The British government plans to reject a European Union decision to lift sanctions on the wife of the late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, suggesting its approach to financially targeting foreign individuals will diverge from the bloc\u2019s, the Sunday Telegraph reports. The U.K. suspended an order freezing the assets of Grace Mugabe after the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":19876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[800,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-19875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-government-of-zimbabwe","10":"tag-robert-mugabe"},"yoast_head":"\n