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Morgan Tsvangirai humiliated
24 Oct 2011 at 06:02hrs | Views
Sunday Mail (October 23) reports PM Morgan Tsvangirai was last week humiliated at Heathrow Airport in London after British government authorities refused to accord him any protocol or protection services, forcing the embarrassed MDC-T leader to join the ordinary immigration queues, it has emerged.
Protocol or protection services are accorded to high-ranking government officials so that once they get to the airport, both on private and business visits, they are given VIP treatment by the host government. It is understood that frantic efforts by the PM's chief of protocol, James Maridadi, to persuade the British Embassy in Harare to urge the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to provide protocol and protection services proved futile.
According to a top MDC-T official in the party's UK branch, who refused to be named for fear of victimisation, PM Tsvangirai arrived in the UK on October 19 on a 2-day private visit.
Protocol or protection services are accorded to high-ranking government officials so that once they get to the airport, both on private and business visits, they are given VIP treatment by the host government. It is understood that frantic efforts by the PM's chief of protocol, James Maridadi, to persuade the British Embassy in Harare to urge the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to provide protocol and protection services proved futile.
Source - zimpapers
