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Mon 11 Nov 2002Cox urged to retract Brussels ban on two Zimbabwean ministersTHE EU: The refusal by Mr Pat Cox, president of the European Parliament, to permit Zimbabwean ministers into the legislature's buildings in Brussels has thrown into jeopardy today's meeting of representatives from African, Caribbean and Pacific states with their EU counterparts.The leaders from both sides will hold talks this morning to try to salvage the four-day meeting of the EU-ACP joint assembly. Yesterday's preliminary meetings of working groups were cancelled in a growing row over the European Parliament's ban on two members of the Zimbabwean government.