Summary: February 10, 2004: Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on recent events in Zimbabwe (Brussels)
The European Union wishes to express its condemnation regarding reports of the violent clampdown of a peaceful demonstration organised by the National Constitutional Assembly on 4 February 2004 in Harare.
In this context the European Union strongly deplores the arrest and assault of a large number of participants in the demonstration. The EU, in particular, condemns the apprehension and ill-treatment of Mr. Lovemore Madhuku, Chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly.
The European Union calls on the Government of Zimbabwe to take all necessary measures to guarantee the rights of its citizens to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly.
The Acceding Countries Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia, the Candidate Countries Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, and the EFTA countries, members of the European Economic Area, align themselves with this declaration.
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