Zimbabwe's government has thanked the countries that blocked UN sanctions against its regime on Friday.
China and Russia vetoed the proposed punitive measures on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe over his disputed re-election. South Africa also voted against the US draft which received the support of nine of the UN Security Council's 15 members. Zimbabwe's minister for information, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, called the veto an international diplomatic victory, not only for Zimbabwe, but for the whole of Africa. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, meanwhile, called Moscow's veto, "incomprehensible". Russia's foreign ministry issued a statement saying that the UN sanctions would have created a dangerous precedent and would have violated the UN charter.
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