Robert Mugabe says "west" is using radio waves to institute regime change in Zimbabwe

International sanctions prevent Mugabe from travelling within Europe but United Nations events are exempt from the ban - and the ITU is an agency of the UN. Hence his visit. The oxygen of publicity and all that.

In his address to the Council of Ministers, Mugabe, yet again, could not resist stirring things up and taking a sideswipe at the mysterious cabal of "certain western countries" that, he alleges, is working to depose him and re-impose imperialism and colonisation on Zimbabwe.

In his closing remarks Mugabe said he was "registering Zimbabwe's dismay at the continued violation of her airwaves by certain western countries whose radio broadcasting systems have targeted my country to further these countries' obnoxious regime change agendas."

He added, "The political and economic challenge to our sovereignty that sometimes has had its ICT co-relative in the process - resulting in the flagrant violations of certain protocols which we are all party to under the ITU.