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VP Chiwenga in Nicaragua
Mukudzei Chingwere in Managua, Nicaragua
Zimbabwe and Nicaragua share the same revolutionary parentage and ascribe to the politics of national sovereignty and should build on these to achieve deeper economic cooperation for the mutual benefit of its people.
These sentiments were expressed by Vice President, Dr Constantino Chiwenga when he arrived here to represent President Mnangagwa at the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution.
Nicaragua’s Minister and Presidential Advisor on International Affairs, Mr Valdrack Jaentschke, received the Vice President and his delegation.
Zimbabwe’s top envoy to Cuba, who also doubles up in Nicaragua, Ambassador Paul Chikawa was also at hand to receive the VP.
Speaking to journalists immediately after touching down, VP Chiwenga congratulated Nicaragua for towing the liberation war line since independence in 1979.
He said Zimbabwe shares the same proud history having defeated the settler regime in 1980 and staying the course of the revolution up to date.
It is now up to the two sister Republics, said VP Chiwenga, to build on this friendly and common history for mutual economic benefit.
“We are both liberation movements. The Sandinista Revolution as we know it was wedged during the same time we wedged our own war of independence,” said VP Chiwenga.
“The Sandinistas had been formed in 1961 and got their independence on July 19, 1979. We gained our own independence on April 18, 1980. So we are both revolutionaries and they invited us under that same spirit.
“Remember President Daniel Ortega Saavedra came to Zimbabwe way back in 1980, their Foreign Minister came to the funeral of our founding father, President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and now they opened their embassy in Harare on the 2nd of July.
“So our friendship with Nicaragua is quite great as it all stems from the war of liberation,” said VP Chiwenga.
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