THE United States of America (USA) senate Foreign Relations Committee says Zimbabwe will remain its county\u2019s international partner despite Zanu-PF\u2019s hostile stance to it.<\/p>\n
This comes after Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa on Monday said USA ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols is a thug and funding a regime change agenda in Harare.<\/p>\n
However, the committee said this would not affect the USA relationship with Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe US continues to be the strongest international partner of the Zimbabwean people, despite #Zimbabwe\u2018s governing party pursuing a policy of name-calling, deflection, and misinformation to justify their current economic and political crisis. Keep up the good work, Amb Nichols,\u201d the US foreign relations committee said on its official Twitter account.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, US assistant secretary for African Affairs Tibor Nagy revealed that his government had summoned Zimbabwe ambassador to Washington DC, Ammon Machingambi Mutembwa, to explain Chinamasa\u2019s utterances.<\/p>\n
\u201cComments from #Zanu-PF \u2013 while sadly not surprising \u2013 are deeply offensive. We have summoned the Ambassador of Zimbabwe to explain,\u201d Nagy said.<\/p>\n
This comes after Chinamasa blasted the USA, mainly its ambassadors to Zimbabwe, for allegedly interfering in Zimbabwean politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe remind the US ambassador Brian Nichols and his coterie of gangsters and mercenaries disguised as diplomats that it\u2019s high time they get to know Zimbabwe is a sovereign republic and full state under the Montevideo convention.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he (Nichols) continues to engage in acts of undermining this republic, mobilising and funding disturbances, coordinating violence and training insurgency, our leadership will not hesitate to give him marching orders. Diplomats should not behave like thugs. \u2026 Nichols is a thug. Zanu-PF reminds Nichols that he is not a super diplomat in this country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are several diplomats that are seconded to this republic from the African union member countries and world over.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have never masqueraded and pretend to be our prefects as \u2026 Nichols is doing. Zimbabwe is not one of the States or provinces that make the USA.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe fought for this country to preserve it and protect it, not to surrender it to those from whom we tirelessly fought for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cNever in our lifetime. Christopher Dell tried it and the shoes proved too big for him. Don\u2019t dare,\u201d Chinamasa said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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