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should aim to avoid land purchases and concentrate on rural infrastructure and institution building. Mugabe will be pleased that the Prime Minister is visiting a land resettlement scheme at Mount Darwin.
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Further details of our aid programme, the work of the CDC and the British Council are at Annex C.
Consular
The Prime Minister will wish to voice our concern over two consular cases, Mr Jack Lewis-Walker and Mrs Patricia Brown, both mono-British nationals arrested in September 1987 on allegations of espionage for South Africa. The have remained in detention under a Ministerial Order for 18 months despite all charges having been withdrawn and a Review Tribunal
recommendation for their release. Mugabe promised
Mrs Chalker in November that he would look again at these
cases.
If time allows, the Prime Minister may also wish to raise the issue of blocked funds (details of this and
X other consular cases in Annex D).
REGIONAL ISSUES
Angola/Namibia
The Prime Minister could stress the need to ensure that the recent Angola/Namibia agreements are fully observed by all.
She will find Mugabe suspicious of South African intentions and possibly still sore about the UN Secretary General's cuts in the size of UNTAG on which she and Mugabe have exchanged letters (Annex E). The Prime Minister will wish to stress our commitment to the UN Plan. We are contributing a Signals Unit to the UN force in Namibia, and will establish a liaison office in Windhoek from 1 April.
The Prime Minister will wish to say that we are committed to free and fair elections in Namibia and to an independent Namibia being a political and economic success. This would serve, (as Zimbabwe already does),
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