China will use its veto to stop the United Nations Security Council from criticising Zimbabwe’s slum clearance, President Robert Mugabe says.
The UK and the US have asked the Security Council to discuss the demolitions, after a UN report said 700,000 had been made homeless.
Mr Mugabe is on a week-long visit to China, seeking help with Zimbabwe’s economic crisis and foreign loans.
He has signed a trade deal with China, of which the contents remain unknown.
See also: China hails Mugabe’s ‘brilliant’ diplomacy by Mure Dickie in Beijing and John Reed in Johannesburg from The Financial Times, via A Glimpse of the World blog.
