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Mugabe azila mkutano kisa eti mkewe kanyimwa visa!
Grace Mugabe denied Swiss visa, hubby cancels UN trip
by Staff reporter
2011 October 26 07:08:19
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THE Zimbabwean Government has lodged a protest with the United Nations and the Swiss government after the latter denied visas to six members of President Mugabe's delegation to the International Telecommunications Union summit on information communication technologies underway in Geneva.
President Mugabe was leading the delegation, but cancelled the trip after the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Transport, Communications and Infrastructure Development Minister Nicholas Goche, Director General in the President's Department Retired Major General Happyton Bonyongwe, Secretary for Media, Information and Publicity Mr George Charamba, and his aide de camp Senior Assistant Commissioner Martin Kwainona were denied visas.
Information Communication Technology Minister Nelson Chamisa, who was part of the delegation, was granted a visa.
A senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday confirmed to the Herald that Zimbabwe had lodged a protest with the UN and the Swiss authorities.
"We noted that this was a highly regrettable decision which was a clear violation of the United Nations headquarters host agreement and Zimbabwe's sovereign right to determine the composition of its delegation," the official said.
According to the official, Zimbabwe lodged its protest through the Swiss embassies in Harare and Geneva, the UN in New York as well as to the UN secretary-general, his representative at the ITU and the secretary-general of the ITU, which is headquartered in Geneva.
The ITU is a UN specialised agency for telecommunications.
Bulawayo 24 News
Grace Mugabe denied Swiss visa, hubby cancels UN trip
by Staff reporter
2011 October 26 07:08:19
View attachment 39966
THE Zimbabwean Government has lodged a protest with the United Nations and the Swiss government after the latter denied visas to six members of President Mugabe's delegation to the International Telecommunications Union summit on information communication technologies underway in Geneva.
President Mugabe was leading the delegation, but cancelled the trip after the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Transport, Communications and Infrastructure Development Minister Nicholas Goche, Director General in the President's Department Retired Major General Happyton Bonyongwe, Secretary for Media, Information and Publicity Mr George Charamba, and his aide de camp Senior Assistant Commissioner Martin Kwainona were denied visas.
Information Communication Technology Minister Nelson Chamisa, who was part of the delegation, was granted a visa.
A senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday confirmed to the Herald that Zimbabwe had lodged a protest with the UN and the Swiss authorities.
"We noted that this was a highly regrettable decision which was a clear violation of the United Nations headquarters host agreement and Zimbabwe's sovereign right to determine the composition of its delegation," the official said.
According to the official, Zimbabwe lodged its protest through the Swiss embassies in Harare and Geneva, the UN in New York as well as to the UN secretary-general, his representative at the ITU and the secretary-general of the ITU, which is headquartered in Geneva.
The ITU is a UN specialised agency for telecommunications.
Bulawayo 24 News
