PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA HEADS TO GLASGOW FOR COP26 SUMMIT
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By Taonga Botolo
Fresh from successfully presiding over the five-day annual national people’s congress of the governing Zanu PF party, President Dr. Emmerson Mnangagwa has left Zimbabwe for Glasgow, Scotland to attend the Conference of Parties (COP 26) summit.
COP26 is a platform where governments, civil society groups, trade unions, businesses and individuals with interest in climate change meet to review and negotiate global action against climate change.
The event is bringing together between 20,000 and 25,000 delegates alongside global politicians and state leaders from about 200 countries.
President Mnangagwa is accompanied on the historic trip by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Ambassador Fredrick Shava and seven elders from the clergy who include Rev Andrew Wutawunashe and others whose mission is to talk to the church in the United Kingdom on removing of illegal sanctions that have chocked Zimbabwe’s economy for two decades.
The President, according to State House sources, is expected to hold side meetings with UK government officials and other western government’s as part of the Second Republic’s rapproachment drive.
President Mnangagwa was seen off at the RGM International Airport by senior government and Zanu PF officials led by Vice President Dr. Constantine G.D.N. Chiwenga who is now Acting President as well foreign envoys.
The visit by President Mnqngagwa to the United Kingdom is first of its kind by a Zimbabwe leader since 2000.
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