"I should make it clear [...] that we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and, as you know, we were colonised, not colonisers."
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From a 1997 letter to Zimbabwe's Agriculture Minister, Kumbirai Kangai. Short was then Secretary of State for International Development. Short was writing in response to President Mugabe's request for Britain fulfill its Lancaster House agreement to pay for land redistribution from white farmers to poor black Zimbabweans.
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Clare Short
Clare Short (born 15 February 1946) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Development under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997 to 2003. Short was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010; for most of this period she was a Labour Party MP, but she resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent.
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