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Herald Correspondent
Zimbabwe and the Arabic Republic of Egypt have pledged to use media to intensify the diplomatic relations existing between them.
This emerged when Egyptian Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Salwa Mowafi, paid a courtesy call on Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Senator Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday.
Minister Mutsvangwa chronicled the source of the relations between the two great nations.
“Egypt is a symbolic conduit of our nation’s independence,” she said. “President Mnangagwa acquired his formative military training in Egypt. So, we must take this relationship to a higher level by connecting our people through the media.”
Minister Mutsvangwa said the media had a crucial role in connecting the two nations and this would create investment attraction in technological development, agriculture and industrialisation.
“When our economies and people are connected we are bound to accrue dividends of our diplomatic solidarities,” she said. “So they must be exchanges between our media experts and their Egyptian counterparts considering our ongoing broadcasting digital expansion.”
Yesterdays meeting is set to facilitate joint cooperation in the field of media and broadcasting.
To this end, both parties committed to reviving the Joint Permanent Commission on Cooperation which has been dormant since 2013.
This comes at a time Zimbabwe has been on an overdrive to promote the engagement and re-engagement policy under President Mnangagwa.
Ambassador Salwa Mowafi promised that the Egyptian mission in Zimbabwe will continue to cement the good relations which her country has maintained with Zimbabwe.
Historically, Zimbabwe and Egypt have enjoyed cordial relations since Zimbabwe’s independence.
Egypt was one of the Arab countries which were solidly behind Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle.
Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga visited Cairo, Egypt, to attend the Ministerial Segment of the 4th Session of the Specialised Technical Committee on Health, Population and Drug Control of the African Union (STC-HPDC-4) in June last year and the Africa Health Excon Exhibition and Conference the same month.
In the area of technical cooperation, Zimbabwe continues to benefit from manpower development courses offered by the Government of Egypt in the agriculture, defence, home affairs, health, mining, environment and media sectors.
Six Zimbabwean undergraduate students were on long-term scholarships in Egypt in 2020.
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