/ 13 March 2000

BRITAIN OVERLOOKS DIPLOMATIC BLUNDER

BRITAIN will not take action against Zimbabwe for contravening a section of the Vienna Convention after officials opened a diplomatic consignment bag. A British foreign office spokesman in London said the opening of the diplomatic bag at gun point was quite an unprecedented act which had never happened anywhere in the world. “We, as the British government, have decided to put the incident behind us,” the official said.