{"id":2152,"date":"2023-02-03T13:03:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T13:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2023-02-03T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T13:03:21","slug":"i-am-here-to-further-strengthen-ties-ambassador-livune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/i-am-here-to-further-strengthen-ties-ambassador-livune\/","title":{"rendered":"I am here to further strengthen ties: Ambassador Livune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Staff Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a wake-up call for the yellow-branded political party which thought that the coming in of Zambian<br>President Hakainde Hichilema would influence the course of election results in Zimbabwe, the newly<br>appointed Zambian Ambassador to Zimbabwe, says his coming in is aimed at further strengthening<br>the ties that lie between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ascendance of President Hichilema resulted in frenzy by the opposition circles as pictures of<br>Nelson Chamisa along with that country\u2019s leader were awash in the media. The narrative then had<br>been if Zambians could do it, then Zimbabweans were also able to follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unbeknown to the opposition, relations that would follow between President E.D Mnangagwa and<br>President Hichilema would grow strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent Twitter post by the Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet of Zimbabwe,<br>George Charamba, tweets \u201cThree Presidents, one Vice President cuddled together. Who are they<br>and what do you think they were discussing? Epic moment wasn\u2019t it?\u201d<br>If at all President Hichilema was so engrossed in the petty politics the CCC displays in Zimbabwe,<br>there was no way that he would cuddle in this picture. That petty kind of politics is resulting in<br>Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume being on the firing line for signing a twinning agreement with Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However presenting his Credentials this week, Zambian Ambassador to Zimbabwe, His Excellency<br>Derrick Livune noted that the strong ties between the two countries date back a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFirst of all it is important to know that Zambia and Zimbabwe share a long time relationship as two<br>sister countries and my coming is to further strengthen the relationship that exists for all of us,\u201d he<br>said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe must be grateful to our forefathers and indeed the governments that have been around and of<br>course ourselves so that we must continue this legacy of promoting this relationship that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zambian Ambassador added that the trade agreements which exist between the two countries will<br>move forward, issues of culture and social existence between the two peoples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff Writer In a wake-up call for the yellow-branded political party which thought that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-03-at-12.14.55.jpg?fit=720%2C536&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.zanupfpatriots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}