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G8: 2005 Summit

My Lords, perhaps I may ask the noble Lady the Leader of the House about, as usual, Zimbabwe. She quoted what was decided at the G8. Since the country is now in a state of near collapse, what degree of urgency was given in the G8 to the need for an immediate report? As far as I remember, Kofi Annan’s envoy has been there for over two weeks. The noble Baroness has spoken about a UN summit in September. I doubt whether the country can wait until September. I should also like to ask whether the AU said anything about its envoy from its own Human Rights Commission who was supposed to have gone to Zimbabwe and report. I do not know whether he has done so and, if he did, whether that was discussed at the G8. I would like to be assured that there was a real sense of the desperate urgency of action. We cannot wait until some meeting in September.