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Farirai Machivenyika, Harare Bureau
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has reiterated Government’s commitment to re-engaging with the international community and thanked countries that have rendered assistance to alleviate the impact of Cyclone Idai which caused deaths and destruction in the eastern parts of the country.
The President on Friday said this after a technical tour of Karo Resources Mining site in Mhondoro-Ngezi.
“This country has suffered punitive sanctions for the past decade and during that time we have suffered isolation from the international family of nations.
“Under the Second Republic, we have devised a foreign policy based on engagement and re-engagement meaning that we have to engage all member States of the world family of nations so that we relate with them and they relate with us,” he said.
President Mnangagwa said re-engagement meant that the country had to have dialogues with nations it has had differences with before.
“Re-engagement means we have to re-engage with those countries that have disengaged with us. We are saying to them, let us re-engage, let us have dialogue, let us discuss, let us have a conversation.
“What is it that we have done wrong to you or you have done to us? Let us discuss and move forward. With that, we are now receiving positive signals from world capitals through that re-engagement policy,” the President added.
He thanked the countries that had rendered Zimbabwe assistance following the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai.
However, countries beyond Africa have also come to assist, to console the families that have lost their loved ones and in their condolences to Zimbabwe and these include the royal family of the UK.
US President Donald Trump’s administration sent $2,5 million to support the disaster requirements
He thanked Mozambique for providing decent burials to over 158 Zimbabweans that were swept away into that country by the cyclone.
More than 340 people were killed by the cyclone that hit the country nearly a month ago.
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