In 2002, our masters, the EU, slapped a travel ban on Mugabe. He’s not allowed to come to any EU country.

Then the UN invites him to a conference (on world hunger can you believe?) that took place in Rome - which is in an EU country (that information given for the benefit of the UN’s geography department).

Apparently the ban doesn’t apply to UN functions since these are held to be above the jurisdiction of any individual state. So Mugabe uses them as a platform for his delusional denouncements of the west - and makes fools of us all in the process.

The EU should prepare its bans more carefully because it ought to know by now the UN provides a tradesman’s entrance for all the world’s despots and dictators.