Serbia–Zimbabwe relations

Serbia–Zimbabwe relations

Serbia	Zimbabwe

Serbia–Zimbabwe relations are bilateral ties between Serbia and Zimbabwe. Yugoslavia (and now Serbia as its successor state) a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, of which Zimbabwe is also a part.

Relations during Yugoslavia era[]

The conference center built in 1985 for the 1986 Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Zimbabwe was built by Serbian company Energoprojekt holding, as was Mugabe's personal home. Robert Mugabe met Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito in Brijuni, Yugoslavia, and again in Havana, Cuba in 1979. When Tito died in 1980, Mugabe and a state delegation attended his funeral. Mugabe described Yugoslavia as the nation other non-aligned countries, especially African nations, went to for economic and technological needs.^[1]

Relations post Yugoslavia[]

In 2014, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe expressed his desire to rebuild and continue the friendship between Serbia and Zimbabwe, and described Serbia as the "only country in the world that [Zimbabwe] can consider a perfect friend," and that Serbia is Zimbabwe's only foreign ally. Mugabe also invited Serbian minister Ivan Mrkić to Zimbabwe to begin talks on joint projects in the fields of infrastructure, agriculture, information technology and mining.^[2] Zimbabwe has an embassy in Belgrade,^[3] and Serbia has an embassy in Harare.^[4]

See also[]

• Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement
• Yugoslavia and the Organisation of African Unity

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