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From Juba to Brussels: our meetings with EU leaders
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson blogs about visiting Brussels a week after travelling to Ethiopia and South Sudan on an Elders delegation. Together with her fellow Elder Martti Ahtisaari, she discussed the situation in the region with EU officials ? as well as raising the issue of international sanctions against Zimbabwe.