not sovereign, again
here is no way Zanzibar can become a sovereign state within the United Republic of Tanzania because that would amount to automatically breaking the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has told the National Assembly.
The Premier revealed the stance in Parliament yesterday during his weekly question and answer session with MPs.
He was responding to a supplementary question posed by Civic United Front party legislator Ibrahim Sanya.
The Zanzibar`s Stone Town legislator had demanded that Zanzibar be given its sovereignty for it to be able to join the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).
Pinda, who was once again forced by law-makers to issue a clarification on the issue, insisted that Zanzibar was not a sovereign state because it had lost the status in 1964 when it became part of the Union.
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