The platforms are global associations which foster international dialogue, cooperation and regional integration of national parliaments from all continents.
Member states finance the organisations, but Zimbabwe has been seemingly lagging for the past 12 years.
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube in response said that Zimbabwe also has other arrears with embassies which he said were due to lack of foreign currency.
“Sikhala raised similar issues on increasing the resource envelope on the role of Parliament that is correct. The issue of arrears is about the availability of foreign currency,” he said.
However, some of the debts are reportedly dating back to a time when there were no foreign currency shortages.
“It is not just arrears in terms of Parliament; it is a whole lot of international arrears, including debt and the debt is being dealt with separately.
“We are also in arrears with embassies and we continue to make best effort in raising foreign currency to clear these arrears so that Sikhala and others can participate as full members of the international community without the embarrassment that they have suffered in the past,” he added.
Meanwhile, organisations such as the World Bank and African development Bank International Monetary Fund (IMF) have told the Zimbabwean government to clear arrears to unlock new finances which were sealed around 2000 when the country defaulted its payment.
Imports have remained higher than exports making it a difficult task to regenerate the economy and secure enough foreign currency to finance retailers as well as pay arrears to international creditors.
On the other hand State-owned enterprises are under-performing, swamped with arrears which have drained more than half a billion dollars over the last two years due to perennial loss-making.
