WAR VET FOREIGN DELEGATES ARRIVE
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By Margaret Kamba
Foreign delegates to the inaugural War Veterans League Conference have started to trickle ahead of the scheduled dates.
The Conference being held from the 8th to the 10th of this month will witness the election of the National Executive of the War Veterans League.
The first foreign delegate to arrive was Palestine’s Mrs Kifah Abdalqader a member of the revolutionary council of Fatah movement and member of the Palestinian national Council.
In her remarks shortly after landing at the Robert Mugabe International Airport Tuesday evening, she said her attendance to the War Veterans League’s Inaugural Conference was as a result of the relationship between the two countries.
“I am very happy to arrive in the country with which we have a great and long history between the Palestine Liberation Organisation PLO and our comrades in the freedom fighters of ZANU PF. We have a common struggle and you achieved yours by announcing your independence in 1980. We are still struggling also to achieve our independence by ending the Israeli occupation in Palestine,” she said.
“We want to pledge our solidarity with Zimbabwe to end the sanctions.”
ZANU PF Secretary of the War Veterans League Cde Douglas K Mahiya said the invitation was extended to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation PLO due to a common factor.
“The War Veterans League at its inaugural meeting has invited the PLO. The common denominator is the struggle for freedom or independence. ZANU PF is a progressive political party. It has a mandate to give support and build a relationship with all progressive forces,” Cde Mahiya said.
“As a League, new as it is, we have a duty to extend our relationship with all progressive forces of the country and the PLO is one of them.”
More delegates are scheduled to arrive before the Conference kicks off.
The conference is being held under the theme “Force of the past, Power of the present, Inspiration of the future.”
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