Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has warned he will respond to Western hostility against his government by taking a more negative stance against whites in his country.
"The more they work against us, the more they express their hostility against us, the more negative we shall become to their kith and kin here," Mr Mugabe said in a speech to open the annual conference of his ruling Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party.
Mr Mugabe said countries aligning themselves with Britain in an international anti-Zimbabwe drive will be recognised as "our enemies like we recognise Britain as our enemy".
Relations between Zimbabwe and its former colonial power have soured in recent years as the government embarked on a campaign to seize white-owned land and give it to landless blacks.
Mr Mugabe also ruled out a government of national unity with the opposition in the country during his speech to hundreds of his party officials and supporters.