President Robert Mugabe arrived in Rwanda for the 27th Ordinary Session of the African Union General Assembly, with Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame paying a courtesy call on him, in which they are reported to have discussed bilateral relations between the two countries and international affairs.
President Mugabe, the continental bloc’s immediate past chairman, is in Kigali for the AU mid-term summit that is expected to focus on, among other things, full integration of the continent through establishment of Free Trade Area and Africa’s quest for two permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council in line with the common African position on the proposed reform of the United Nations also known as the Ezulwini Consensus of 2005.
However, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said there were fears that some African Union countries were now backtracking on the Ezulwini Consensus due to the time it has taken to reform the UN.
Speaking to the media after a closed-door meeting between President Mugabe and President Kagame, Minister Mumbengegwi said the courtesy call was in recognition of President Mugabe’s role as the immediate past chairperson of the African Union and a member of the Bureau of the of the AU in his capacity of rapporteur.
“They discussed a number of issues that are coming up during the summit in the very preliminary manner,” said Minister Mumbengegwi.
“But they spent a lot of time discussing broader world issues as well as bilateral issues where they felt that the two countries were not working hard enough to see that we work upon our economic relations between the two countries that we can be able to cooperate in a number of areas which the two ministers of foreign affairs have been tasked to explore the possibilities of much deeper cooperation between Zimbabwe and Rwanda.”
Mumbengegwi said so far, senior officials and ministers of foreign affairs had been meeting to prepare the agenda for the summit and to consider issues under the purview of the executive coun- cil.
To integrate the continent, Mumbengegwi said this would be done through creation of the continental Free Trade Area that is expected to come into effect in 2017.
As a result, the continent intends to introduce an African passport that seeks to facilitate free movement of people, goods and services around the continent with holders of that passport accessing all African countries without requiring a visa. Herald
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Endless discussions are what you are all good at. You think you will all go to “ezulwini” with your false promises? Think again. You will never beat the west because you are all useless. How do you pay a courtesy call to 92 year old who is always asleep at conferences and still expect to achieve your pathways to ezulwini? Kkkkkkk kkkkkkk Africans lol!!
Endless discussions are what you are all good at. You think you will all go to “ezulwini” with your false promises? Think again. You will never beat the west because you are all useless. How do you pay a courtesy call to 92 year old who is always asleep at conferences and still expect to achieve your pathways to ezulwini? Kkkkkkk kkkkkkk Africans lol!!