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meetings with their Chinese counterparts, preferably during the Prime Minister’s sightseeing tour of Beijing on May 29 2012,” reads part of the letter obtained by The Herald yesterday.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Ambassador Joey Bimha wrote the letter to Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to China, Cde Frederick Shava. The PM’s delegation does not have Zanu-PF officials.
According to the itinerary of the trip, the PM arrives in Beijing on May 27 and will have a meeting with the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, before attending the official ceremony of CIFTIS.
The following day, he will visit the Great Wall, Forbidden City and Summer Palace. On May 30, PM Tsvangirai will leave Beijing for Shanghai, where he will go on another sightseeing before attending a Zimbabwe Investment Promotion meeting.
The PM and his delegation will have another sightseeing in Shenzhen on June 2 before leaving for Hong Kong en route to Harare.
PM Tsvangirai is visiting China at a time when Zimbabwe has intensified its Look East Policy initiated by President Mugabe at the turn of the millennium.
Zimbabwe adopted the policy after some Western countries imposed illegal sanctions against the country.
MDC-T has always been disapproving of the Government’s Look East Policy, insisting nothing meaningful was coming out of it.
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