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US embassy denies Herald report on MDC meeting
By Staff
Reporter
THE United States embassy in Harare Wednesday denied state media reports
that ambassador Christopher Dell met both factions of Zimbabwe’s
opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
The embassy said at the time of the alleged meeting, the envoy was in Washington.
The official Herald newspaper, in its Wednesday’s edition claimed that Dell had summoned officials from the two rival camps including the leaders of the two factions -- Arthur Mutambara and Morgan Tsvangirai -- before ordering them to unite with promises of monetary gains.
Both factions of the MDC have already dismissed the report as a fabrication.
The US embassy's public officer in Harare Paul Engelstad said no such meeting ever took place.
He said: “The
story in the Herald newspaper alleging a meeting on 9 January
between US ambassador Christopher Dell and representatives of the Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC) is false.
"Neither ambassador Dell, who was not in Harare on that date, nor any other United States of America Embassy official attended the alleged meeting referred to in the story."
MDC secretary general Welshman Ncube, also Wednesday, dismissed the story as a fabrication.
He said: "It does not have an iota of truth."
Ncube, who is also
one of the leading opposition figures said to have attended
the meeting insisted the report was a “delusional creation of
the state agents who run the Herald.”
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