Brown anger at Zimbabwe sanctions

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Following the vetos on Friday, which blocked global action against the Harare regime, Mr Brown pressed European leaders meeting in Paris to extend EU sanctions against named associates of Mugabe.

The Prime Minister said Britain would submit the names of a further 36 individuals and two entities in Zimbabwe which he believes should be added to the list of 132 people already subject to EU financial and travel restrictions.

He said he was ready to return to the UN to seek new action if there was no progress in resolving the situation in the southern African state

Mr Brown was speaking to reporters at the inaugural summit of the Union for the Mediterranean in Paris, where he raised the issue of Zimbabwe with fellow EU leaders including French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

He said: "I don't think the veto by China and by Russia can be easily justified, I don't think it can be easily defended, given what we know is happening in Zimbabwe."

People in Zimbabwe were suffering from poverty, hunger, intimidation and violence because of the actions of the Mugabe regime, said Mr Brown.

"That's why I am determined that we step up the pressure. We will submit to the EU the names of 36 other people against whom sanctions should be imposed and two entities in Zimbabwe against which sanctions should also be imposed.

"It is very important to recognise that the opinion in Britain, in Europe and in America is that we should not lessen the pressure on this regime. It is illegitimate, it is holding on to power without the support of the electorate.

"Anything we can do in the next few weeks with the mediation of the UN as well as the African Union and the South Africans is what we will continue to do."