Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon has expressed pessimism over prospects for change in Zimbabwe, which his group recently suspended in protest at alleged flaws in President Robert Mugabe's re-election.
"It is sad that nothing is improving in that nation," Mr McKinnon told Reuters. "I am not at all hopeful that anything is going to change."
Mr McKinnon, whose group of 54 mainly former British colonies suspended Zimbabwe for a year in March, said Mr Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party was showing no sign of easing its pressure on the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Nor was there any let up in the policy of seizing white-owned farms for black resettlement, he said. "On the contrary, there is a determination now to go on and take all the land."
About 3,000 farmers, branded last week by Zimbabwean Agriculture Minister Joseph Made as "unrepentant racists and fascists," have been given until midnight tomorrow to stop working their farms and just over a month to leave.
Mr McKinnon said international pressure was being ignored.
"All the things that any international organization has done have not had any impact," he said.
"We (the Commonwealth) have done more than anyone, but I cannot say that anything that we have done has had any effect on putting the government on another course of action."