We should deepen ties: Envoys
Russian Ambassador, Nikolai Vladimirovich Krasilnikov
Russia and Zimbabwe have close, cordial and deep-rooted bilateral relations. During my tour of duty, I will do my best to promote further the cooperation between our two nations in various fields.
At the moment, we are concentrating on mining, agriculture and military cooperation and I am sure in the course of my tour of duty and together with our partners in the Government of Zimbabwe and business community, we will identify and promote projects in other fields for the mutual benefit of our nations. I highlighted that the Russia-Africa Summit held in Sochi was a great success.
The Republic of Zimbabwe made a significant contribution to the success of this remarkable event with the active participation of His Excellency, the President and the instructive and active involvement of the ministers and the business leaders from Zimbabwe. Angolan Ambassador Agostinho Tav
ares da Silva Neto Zimbabwe is a brother country, so the bilateral relationship between Angola and Zimbabwe is in excellent shape. So I talked with His Excellency about the relationship between our two countries, the potential we have, so we must work together to explore the opportunities. There is a lot of opportunities in areas like agriculture, tourism and industry, so we talked about re-activating our Joint Commission.
The only Joint Commission we had was in 1992, so we need to reactivate it and maybe in the future, create the Angola-Zimbabwe Chamber of Commerce to facilitate trade and investment because we have great potential. We must work together.
Sweden’s Ambassador
Ms Asa Pehrson
The focus of the discussion with the President was the long-term relationship between the two countries, we have an open friendship. Sweden is one of the largest bilateral donors to Zimbabwe and I think that is a clear sign of our commitment, and to also assist in reforms and to deepen democracy. I will focus my work on continuing with the work of my predecessor, of promoting my Government’s feminist foreign policy.
We will follow up on all areas of cooperation with the Republic of Zimbabwe, whether it’s political, economic or cultural, and we hope circumstances will be there to allow those aspects of our relations.
Finland Ambassador
Ms Pirjo Chowdhoury
I had an excellent discussion with the President and we were talking about our relations, the history of them and the good relations