Britain issues warning to Mugabe

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Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch-Brown said action could be taken through a range of international bodies, including the United Nations Security Council, the African Union and the European Union.

"I believe there is a whole range of things that can be done which can bring this regime to heel in the sense of requiring it to bend to the will of the international community and allow political change," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

His warning came as Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the opposition MDC, pulled out of the run-off for the presidential election, saying the level of violence and intimidation against his supporters made a fair vote impossible.

Lord Malloch-Brown said current sanctions against Zimbabwe were "fairly limited", with measures by the United States, the EU and Australia targeting some 130 of Mr Mugabe's "immediate cronies".

He said wider international measures could now be used to put pressure on leading figures in the regime.

"Each of them have global bank accounts, a network they have taken out of the country against a rainy day. Each of them wants to spend their money on their kids going to expensive graduate schools around the world and on having second homes in countries to where they could potentially go.

"All of those kinds of patterns of networks of assets and travel are under threat.

"None of these individuals, if they continue like this, have a prospect of being able to leave Zimbabwe without the risk of some international arrest warrant leading to their imprisonment somewhere."