XPost: misc.legal, uk.legal   
   From: marte005@frontier.com   
      
   Avoid,   
      
      
   >>    Which claims? Sorry, I can't figure out where you are going with this.   
   >>   
   > Claims for promised "funds for land reform" and money for Mugabe:   
      
      When? I still can't figure out what event or events you are writing   
   about. Mugabe's government is always trying to find money. I sent my Mother   
   one of their trillion dollar bills. Their economy is not well.   
      
   > ie. YOUR words.   
   > My guess is that UK said 'your proposals didn't pass our examination   
   > board, so we refuse the money'.  And in the conversation it was   
   > suggested by Zim that the previous government would have passed   
   > the application, and the comment about Ireland was just small talk,   
   > which the Zim delegates latched onto.   
   >   
   > So, in PRINCIPLE: UK would finance [over seen] land reform,   
   > which Mugabe interpreted as "they said they'd give us money".   
      
       I think the 1981 donor conference pledged 630 million pounds. Most of   
   this was not for land reform.  I don't know how much of that was the UK's   
   share. I'm not going to chase down several decades of UK foreign policy but   
   I suspect that the money was given.   
      
   Good luck,   
   Dave M.   
      
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