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Japanese envoy deliver special message to Mugabe
29 Jan 2016 at 19:42hrs | Views
A special envoy from the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Katsuyuki Kawai delivered a special message to the African Union chairman President Robert Mugabe on Friday afternoon.
Mr Kawai, who was accompanied by Japan's permanent representative to the AU, Ambassador Kazihiro Suzuki, paid a courtesy call on President Mugabe at his hotel in Addis Ababa.
Emerging from the meeting, Mr Kawai says he had delivered a special invitation to President Mugabe from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe relating to the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) which Japan will co-host with Kenya.
This is the first time the TICAD meeting is going to be held outside Japan.
Mr Kawai says they also took the opportunity to discuss President Mugabe's scheduled visit to Japan.
Earlier in the day, President Mugabe in his capacity as AU chairman, attended the unveiling ceremony of the new Equatorial Guinea embassy in Addis Ababa.
Equatorial Guinea President Teodore Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn also attended the unveiling ceremony.
The building was constructed by a Chinese company at a cost of more than US$17 million and took three years to complete.
Mr Kawai, who was accompanied by Japan's permanent representative to the AU, Ambassador Kazihiro Suzuki, paid a courtesy call on President Mugabe at his hotel in Addis Ababa.
Emerging from the meeting, Mr Kawai says he had delivered a special invitation to President Mugabe from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe relating to the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) which Japan will co-host with Kenya.
This is the first time the TICAD meeting is going to be held outside Japan.
Earlier in the day, President Mugabe in his capacity as AU chairman, attended the unveiling ceremony of the new Equatorial Guinea embassy in Addis Ababa.
Equatorial Guinea President Teodore Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn also attended the unveiling ceremony.
The building was constructed by a Chinese company at a cost of more than US$17 million and took three years to complete.
Source - ZBC
