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LONDON, England (CNN) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Monday his country will step up sanctions on Zimbabwe’s government and will call on the European Union to do the same.

The move comes after China and Russia used their veto power Friday to block a U.N. resolution imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, and 11 senior members of his government.

At a news conference Monday, Brown called the vetoes “difficult to justify” and “unfortunate,” adding that “the vast majority of the people in the world want to see action against the Zimbabwe regime.”

“We will now ourselves step up our sanctions,” he said. “We will ask the European Union, at its meeting in a few days’ time, to add a number of names” and corporate entities to its sanctions list, Brown said.

“I have this morning asked the treasury to work with the Financial Action Task Force to track the wealth and the assets that are owned by members of the Mugabe regime which we know are held in different continents” including Asia, Africa, and Europe, he said, “so that we are in a position to take tougher action against them at a later date.”

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