{"id":39948,"date":"2019-09-02T11:21:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T11:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-takes-zimbabwe-anti-sanctions-lobby-to-g7\/"},"modified":"2019-09-04T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:04:48","slug":"kagame-takes-zimbabwe-anti-sanctions-lobby-to-g7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-takes-zimbabwe-anti-sanctions-lobby-to-g7\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame takes Zimbabwe anti-sanctions lobby to G7 leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The G7 is made up of the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame attended the G7 summit after receiving a special invitation as the immediate past chairperson of the African Union.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sunday Mail news medium from Zimbabwe, President Mnangagwa and President Kagame met for bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) summit in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with journalists on Friday, President Mnangagwa said President Kagame had briefed him that he had \u201cpleaded\u201d with the G7 countries on the need to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn particular, with President Kagame, we were discussing strategies to deal with the question of sanctions. At the last SADC meeting in Dar es Salaam, a resolution was made to appeal to AU so that when AU goes to the United Nations, they speak about the removal of sanctions,\u201d said the President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadc secretariat must also again appeal for the removal of sanctions. But individual African countries such as Kagame\u2019s Rwanda are lobbying. They did lobby for Zimbabwe during the G7 meeting. President Kagame attended the G7 meeting and he was able to meet with the G7 leaders and he pleaded with them over the removal of sanctions on Zimbabwe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Sunday Mail, President Mnangagwa said that his Rwandan counterpart is a worthy ally in Zimbabwe\u2019s fight against the embargo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the areas we were discussing and the possibilities of success and attitudes of every single leader in G7 and how they look at Zimbabwe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Mnangagwa said he shares a brotherly bond with President Kagame.<br \/>\n\u201cWith my brother Paul Kagame, it is a continuous exchange of views with regards to our respective situations in Africa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Mnangagwa told Japanese media on Friday, that Zimbabwe will continue the international fight against sanctions, which are limiting the country\u2019s ability to access credit from international markets.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cZDERA constrains us. For the past 20 years, we cannot access support from the IMF, World Bank, IFIs (international finance institutions). Those Bretton Woods institutions cannot extend any lines of credit to Zimbabwe. So, we are surviving through our own domestic means. We are doing our best. We cannot bury our heads in the sand and blame the Bretton Woods institutions for not giving us credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The anti-sanctions lobby continues to gain traction, as Sadc leaders recently resolved to reserve October 25, 2019, as a day when the 16-member states would conduct activities to jointly call for the \u201cimmediate\u201d lifting of the embargo.<\/p>\n<p>The position was communicated at the regional body\u2019s 39th Ordinary Summit of the Sadc Heads of State and Government in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Harare and Kigali continue to deepen, especially under the new political administration.<\/p>\n<p>Of late, there have been reciprocal visits between senior officials from the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The country recently invited the chief executive officer of Rwanda Development Board (RDB), Ms. Clare Akamanzi, to share experiences on how Zimbabwe can sustainably attract investments.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Ambassador James Musoni became Rwanda\u2019s full-time envoy based in Harare.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Rwanda\u2019s South African embassy also covered Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Professor Charity Manyeruke was also recently appointed Zimbabwe\u2019s Ambassador to Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Kigali used to be under the orbit of Zimbabwe\u2019s embassy in Tanzania.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31889 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kagame_ed-50dc3.jpg\" alt=\"Relations between Harare and Kigali continue to deepen, especially under the new political administration.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31890 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kg71-48f50.jpg\" alt=\"President Mnangagwa said President Kagame had briefed him that he had \u201cpleaded\u201d with the G7 countries on the need to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31891 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kg7-4a93d.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame attended the G7 summit after receiving a special invitation as the immediate past chairperson of the African Union.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major diplomatic lobbying for Zimbabwe, Rwanda\u2019s President Paul Kagame has taken the country\u2019s anti-sanctions stance to leaders of the world\u2019s most powerful nations that convened for the Group of Seven (G7) summit in France last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39948"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39948"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}