Zimbabwe on Monday summoned the US Ambassador to Harare to protest a Washington official’s description of the southern African country as an adversary amid raging anti-racism protests.
This comes after US national security advisor Robert O’Brien classified Zimbabwe, China and Russia as some of America’s adversaries. He claimed that the three countries were trying to take advantage of the recent unrest sparked by the murder of African American George Floyd by a white policeman.
Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo said he had summoned US Ambassador Brian Nichols to express his government’s displeasure over Mr O’Brien’s statements.
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“I have today informed the US ambassador to Zimbabwe that Mr O’Brien’s allegations are false, without any factual foundation whatsoever and that they are deeply damaging to a relationship already complicated by years of prescriptive mega diplomacy and primitive economic sanctions,” Dr Moyo said in a statement.
“Zimbabwe is not and has never been an adversary of the United States of America.”
The Minister said the government was reflecting “on the lack of balance and even the double standards so evident in US policy towards Zimbabwe.”
Source: Daily Nation
