Word: mbeki
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...ceremony kicked off late. The president had scheduled the transfer of power to his vice president for 11:59 a.m. Monday. But when the appointed time came, he was returning from the airport, where he had gone to meet South African President Thabo Mbeki. Vice President Moses Blah had entered, exited, and had to return before the ceremony could start...
...manufacturing plant. Tour is perhaps a generous term. That's what it was called on the schedule and that's what the workers at the plant were expecting, but Bush had other ideas. He was running uncharacteristically late for the rigidly on-time President. He left a lunch with Mbeki fifty minutes off the mark, and made up for it by cutting 80 minutes of personal time, but he saw a chance to clip a little more time by speeding up the tour...
...Mbeki has been reluctant to push Mugabe because bowing to Western pressure would cost Mbeki politically at home and diminish his standing amongAfrican leaders. In an interview with CNN last month, the South African leader pushed back at Secretary of State Colin Powell who wrote a critical article in The New York Times arguing that South Africa should be more active in Zimbabwe. "I think it is ill advised for him [Powell] to create the impression that he is directing what South Africa should do," said Mbeki. But today, there was none of that. "Sharp differences?" he said when...
...fact, Mbeki gave the president a nice political assist. When he was asked about Liberia he agreed that it was up to African nations to take the lead in peacekeeping. "We're not saying that this is a burden that just falls on the United States," he said. "It really ought to principally fall on us as Africans...
...point exactly and having a prominent African leader say it releases some of the pressure on the U.S. President. Some might argue that Bush is looking for a way out of a deep commitment in Liberia, but Administration officials argue it is a sign of respect for leaders like Mbeki that Bush believes they can be trusted to handle their own affairs. Bush emphasized this point in his public remarks by praising the South African leader's good work inquelling violence in the Congo and Burundi...