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Mugabe 'is a very strong and committed Pan Africanist' Khaya-Moyo tells the west
04 Apr 2013 at 20:24hrs | Views
ZANU-PF national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo says the West should back off as African countries have a right to self-determination.
Khaya Moyo said this to the ambassador of the Republic of Sudan Mr Elslddleg Abdulaziz Abdalla when he paid a courtesy call on him at the Zanu-PF headquarters in Harare yesterday.
Ambassador Abdalla had brought an invite to Khaya Moyo for Zanu-PF to attend a conference of African political parties scheduled for 27-28 this month in Khartoum.
The invite by the Republic of Sudan National Congress deputy chairperson Dr Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e addressed to Khaya Moyo, indicated that the objective of the conference was to mobilise the continent's energies to better service its objectives.
"We believe as a party that the African continent must be left alone by the West who are trying to interfere with our affairs. We are not an extension of the West. We have enough capacity in our continent to take care of our affairs. As Zanu-PF we are very clear that we should be left alone and not to be subjected to the whims of foreign interests," he said.
"Our President is a very strong and committed Pan Africanist who is known throughout the world for believing in sovereignty and we all acknowledge that the Republic of Sudan is a sovereign state whose affairs should not be interfered with."
Khaya Moyo said Zanu-PF had stood firm against the West's influence of the International Criminal Court to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of crimes against humanity in 2009. He said Zanu-PF did not subscribe to the ICC's charges adding that President Mugabe had made it very clear that the West had nothing to do with African affairs.
The Zanu-PF chairperson said there was a need for his party and the National Congress of the Republic of Sudan to consolidate relations.
Khaya Moyo also hailed improving relations between the Republic of Sudan and South Sudan.
Zanu-PF, he said, would treat the two countries with dignity and impartiality because they shared the same values with Zimbabwe's revolutionary party.
Ambasssador Abdalla said Zanu-PF were good friends who had stood with his country during the trying times when the ICC indicted his country's President.
"We know what Zanu-PF has done for us over the years. They stood with us when the West wanted to take us to the United Nations Security Council.
"I met officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who assured me that their position on the ICC (indictment of President Al Bashir) was very clear," said Ambassador Abdalla.
Turning to the conference of African political parties, Ambassador Abdalla said this would set the stage for the African continent to move forward.
In the Invitation Dr Nafi'e said: "The conference will deliberate on the establishment of a Council of African Political Parties as an institutional framework for greater cooperation and coordination among the continent's political parties, taking into account and benefiting from similar experiences of already established councils for Asian parties and Latin American and the Caribbean."
Khaya Moyo said this to the ambassador of the Republic of Sudan Mr Elslddleg Abdulaziz Abdalla when he paid a courtesy call on him at the Zanu-PF headquarters in Harare yesterday.
Ambassador Abdalla had brought an invite to Khaya Moyo for Zanu-PF to attend a conference of African political parties scheduled for 27-28 this month in Khartoum.
The invite by the Republic of Sudan National Congress deputy chairperson Dr Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e addressed to Khaya Moyo, indicated that the objective of the conference was to mobilise the continent's energies to better service its objectives.
"We believe as a party that the African continent must be left alone by the West who are trying to interfere with our affairs. We are not an extension of the West. We have enough capacity in our continent to take care of our affairs. As Zanu-PF we are very clear that we should be left alone and not to be subjected to the whims of foreign interests," he said.
"Our President is a very strong and committed Pan Africanist who is known throughout the world for believing in sovereignty and we all acknowledge that the Republic of Sudan is a sovereign state whose affairs should not be interfered with."
Khaya Moyo said Zanu-PF had stood firm against the West's influence of the International Criminal Court to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of crimes against humanity in 2009. He said Zanu-PF did not subscribe to the ICC's charges adding that President Mugabe had made it very clear that the West had nothing to do with African affairs.
Khaya Moyo also hailed improving relations between the Republic of Sudan and South Sudan.
Zanu-PF, he said, would treat the two countries with dignity and impartiality because they shared the same values with Zimbabwe's revolutionary party.
Ambasssador Abdalla said Zanu-PF were good friends who had stood with his country during the trying times when the ICC indicted his country's President.
"We know what Zanu-PF has done for us over the years. They stood with us when the West wanted to take us to the United Nations Security Council.
"I met officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who assured me that their position on the ICC (indictment of President Al Bashir) was very clear," said Ambassador Abdalla.
Turning to the conference of African political parties, Ambassador Abdalla said this would set the stage for the African continent to move forward.
In the Invitation Dr Nafi'e said: "The conference will deliberate on the establishment of a Council of African Political Parties as an institutional framework for greater cooperation and coordination among the continent's political parties, taking into account and benefiting from similar experiences of already established councils for Asian parties and Latin American and the Caribbean."
Source - TH
