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Mugabe returns home
25 Apr 2016 at 16:43hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe has returned home from New York where he was invited for the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change by the United Nations Secretary General Ban ki Moon and to attend the High Level Thematic Meeting on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Mugabe who was accompanied by the Minister of Environment, Water and Climate Oppah Muchinguri Kashiri and Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, was received on arrival by the two vice presidents Cdes Phelekezela Mphoko and Emmerson Mnangagwa, Minister of State for Harare Metropolitan province Miriam Chikukwa, cabinet ministers Dr Sydney Sekeramayi, Kembo Mohadi, Chris Mushowe and Joram Gumbo and service chiefs.
In New York, President Mugabe addressed the General Assembly on SDGs saying while Zimbabwe is making its own efforts to mobilise home resources, developed countries should also play their part in helping the developing world to attain the goals.
Minister Mumbengegwi felt that Zimbabwe was highly honoured when the President was asked to co-chair the meeting on sustainable development.
Besides participating in the High Level Meeting on SDGs, the President was part of the large turnout of heads of state and government who signed the Paris Agreement on climate change, where Zimbabwe has already taken steps towards the implementation of climate change through the various measures aimed at reducing carbon emissions, the use of solar and other forms of renewable energy and establishment of irrigation schemes on the many dams that exist in the country.
President Mugabe's participation at the United Nations forums and other international platforms are a source of attraction to many as it is often viewed as the voice of the voiceless for many in the developing world and the oppressed.
Mugabe who was accompanied by the Minister of Environment, Water and Climate Oppah Muchinguri Kashiri and Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, was received on arrival by the two vice presidents Cdes Phelekezela Mphoko and Emmerson Mnangagwa, Minister of State for Harare Metropolitan province Miriam Chikukwa, cabinet ministers Dr Sydney Sekeramayi, Kembo Mohadi, Chris Mushowe and Joram Gumbo and service chiefs.
In New York, President Mugabe addressed the General Assembly on SDGs saying while Zimbabwe is making its own efforts to mobilise home resources, developed countries should also play their part in helping the developing world to attain the goals.
Minister Mumbengegwi felt that Zimbabwe was highly honoured when the President was asked to co-chair the meeting on sustainable development.
Besides participating in the High Level Meeting on SDGs, the President was part of the large turnout of heads of state and government who signed the Paris Agreement on climate change, where Zimbabwe has already taken steps towards the implementation of climate change through the various measures aimed at reducing carbon emissions, the use of solar and other forms of renewable energy and establishment of irrigation schemes on the many dams that exist in the country.
President Mugabe's participation at the United Nations forums and other international platforms are a source of attraction to many as it is often viewed as the voice of the voiceless for many in the developing world and the oppressed.
Source - zbc
