VZCZCXYZ0006
PP RUEHWEB
DE RUEHSB #1053 3301516
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 261516Z NOV 07
FM AMEMBASSY HARARE
TO RUEHLS/AMEMBASSY LUSAKA PRIORITY 2255
RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2170
UNCLAS HARARE 001053
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR AF/S - MARY JO WILLS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: APER ZI ZA
SUBJECT: KUDOS FOR LUSAKA,S ASSISTANCE IN TRANSFORMATIONAL
DIPLOMACY
REF: HARARE 01002
Embassy Harare wishes to thank Embassy Lusaka for exemplary
support in identifying and working tenaciously to secure
former Reserve Bank of Zambia Governor Dr. Jacob Mwanza and
World Bank Country Manager in Zambia Dr. Kapil Kapoor as
speakers at the recent BFIF-funded "Just Business" forum
(reftel). In Zimbabwe's rapidly deteriorating business
environment, dozens of prominent international economists and
businessmen had declined the invitation of the American
Business Association of Zimbabwe (ABAZ) to travel to Harare
to identify and deliberate in a public forum over solutions
to Zimbabwe's economic problems. Embassy Lusaka was
instrumental in securing an esteemed expert from the SADC
region to relay to Zimbabweans how major economic policy
shifts can turn around an economy; Dr. Mwanza's speech was
widely regarded as the most effective presentation of the
forum. Without Embassy Lusaka's assistance, this public
expression of transformational diplomacy could not have taken
place.
MCGEE