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Mugabe to present funds from AU cattle pledge
02 Jul 2017 at 20:13hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe will tomorrow present funds from the proceeds of the cattle donation he pledged to the African Union (AU) Foundation towards the self sustenance of the organisation.
Briefing Zimbabwean journalists in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia today, Foreign Affairs Minister, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said the number of cattle had exceeded the initial 300 which President Mugabe had pledged.
He said the President is going to present the amount of money which was raised when the cattle were auctioned.
Mugabe made the pledge during the inaugural gala of the AU Foundation.
The Foreign Affairs Minister noted that the handover of the proceeds is a very important development because it illustrates that there are a number of innovative ways that the AU can use to generate revenue for its various programme.
Mumbengegwi who attended the AU Executive Council meeting said the AU summit will commence this Monday with a closed session for heads of state and government only plus two others.
He said the main issue on the agenda is the report by President Kagame on the reform of the institutions of the AU.
"The Kagame report makes a number of proposals some of which may be just administrative but there are a number of them which require an amendment and ratification of the Constitutive Act and so these are matters which the summit is going to look at again more closely because at the last summit in January, the general principles were adopted but the actual details were not considered or discussed," explained Mumbengegwi.
The issue of the Saharawi Republic and Morocco was quite contentious in the January summit because it related to whether or not Morocco should be admitted into the organisation while they are still in occupation of Western Saharawi.
At the end of it, Morocco was admitted, as the majority of African states were in favour of her admission, arguing that ‘we would better deal with Morocco from inside the organisation and rather than from outside of the organisation.'
Mumbengegwi added that now Morocco seem to have taken a position that they don't want the AU to be involved in anyway in the issues between them and the Saharawi Republic and so this is an issue that has occupied a lot of time in the executive council and is still under discussion.
Briefing Zimbabwean journalists in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia today, Foreign Affairs Minister, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said the number of cattle had exceeded the initial 300 which President Mugabe had pledged.
He said the President is going to present the amount of money which was raised when the cattle were auctioned.
Mugabe made the pledge during the inaugural gala of the AU Foundation.
The Foreign Affairs Minister noted that the handover of the proceeds is a very important development because it illustrates that there are a number of innovative ways that the AU can use to generate revenue for its various programme.
Mumbengegwi who attended the AU Executive Council meeting said the AU summit will commence this Monday with a closed session for heads of state and government only plus two others.
He said the main issue on the agenda is the report by President Kagame on the reform of the institutions of the AU.
"The Kagame report makes a number of proposals some of which may be just administrative but there are a number of them which require an amendment and ratification of the Constitutive Act and so these are matters which the summit is going to look at again more closely because at the last summit in January, the general principles were adopted but the actual details were not considered or discussed," explained Mumbengegwi.
The issue of the Saharawi Republic and Morocco was quite contentious in the January summit because it related to whether or not Morocco should be admitted into the organisation while they are still in occupation of Western Saharawi.
At the end of it, Morocco was admitted, as the majority of African states were in favour of her admission, arguing that ‘we would better deal with Morocco from inside the organisation and rather than from outside of the organisation.'
Mumbengegwi added that now Morocco seem to have taken a position that they don't want the AU to be involved in anyway in the issues between them and the Saharawi Republic and so this is an issue that has occupied a lot of time in the executive council and is still under discussion.
Source - zbc
