Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has appealed to China and Russia to protect him from attacks by the United States and Europe.
The veteran ruler, who is barred from travelling to the US and the European Union because of alleged human rights violations, is on an official visit to China.
On Wednesday, he met acting Chinese President Xi Jinping where he called on Russia and China to provide a buffer against the Anglo-Saxon alliances expansionist agenda given what Nato did in Libya and threats posed to Syria and Iran, his spokesman told state owned Herald newspaper yesterday.
Countries like China and Russia must provide both leadership and protection, President Mugabes spokesman George Charamba quoted him as telling the Chinese leader.
Mr Mugabe, in power since Zimbabwes independence from Britain in 1980, said Western countries were after his countrys mineral wealth.
Nature has disbursed its resources in its own ways to different countries with some countries richly endowed while some are not. Even us who do not have oil feel no less menaced as these rapacious countries are looking for other resources, Mr Mugabe said.
Source: Monitor
The veteran ruler, who is barred from travelling to the US and the European Union because of alleged human rights violations, is on an official visit to China.
On Wednesday, he met acting Chinese President Xi Jinping where he called on Russia and China to provide a buffer against the Anglo-Saxon alliances expansionist agenda given what Nato did in Libya and threats posed to Syria and Iran, his spokesman told state owned Herald newspaper yesterday.
Countries like China and Russia must provide both leadership and protection, President Mugabes spokesman George Charamba quoted him as telling the Chinese leader.
Mr Mugabe, in power since Zimbabwes independence from Britain in 1980, said Western countries were after his countrys mineral wealth.
Nature has disbursed its resources in its own ways to different countries with some countries richly endowed while some are not. Even us who do not have oil feel no less menaced as these rapacious countries are looking for other resources, Mr Mugabe said.
Source: Monitor