Zimbabwe's
President, Robert Mugabe doesn't seem to be a fan of US President
Donald Trump, that is if his speech at the UN general assembly is
anything to go by.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe
While speaking at the 72nd session of the United Nations General
Assembly, the 93-year-old President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, called
on US President, Donald Trump to embrace peace and dialogue which are
the tenets of the United Nations.
Mugabe said Trump threatened the existence of other nations, adding
that the US President is a modern version of the biblical Goliath who
now threatens to make other countries go extinct.
Read an excerpt of his speech below:
“We believe a different and better world is possible. The
continued denial of the rights to self-determination to the people of
Western Sahara and Palestine, who are living under colonial and foreign
occupation, is immoral and an urgent issue for those seeking peace in
our time.
“My country is an unflinching advocate of the respect of
independent and sovereignty rights of each country. We cannot, however,
remain silent when those decisions negatively affect our own welfare.
“And on this, may I say some of us were embarrassed, if not
frightened, by what appears to be the return of the biblical giant
called Goliath. Are we having the return of Goliath to our midst who
threatens the extinction of other countries?
“May I say, today, United States President, Mr. Trump, please
blow your trumpet in a musical way towards the values of peace, unity,
co-operation, togetherness, dialogue which we have always stood for and
which we read in our very sacred document — the charter of the United
Nations.
“Upon those values, each nation can build its greatness,
including the United States. And it’s the greatness in recognising those
values that we will want to be guided by and not by the promise of our
damnation.
“Damnation we shall always resist, no matter whence it comes.
We have resisted when it was in the form of imperialism, as we fought
for our own independence and culture and sovereignty to be masters of
our own destiny.
“That is why we call ourselves free today… It is because the
monster of imperialism was defeated by us. Bring us another monster by
whatever name, he will suffer the same consequences,” Mugabe said.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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