(SomaliNet) China is ZimbabweÂ’s top co-operation partner, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe pronounced, Harare's Herald newspaper reported on Friday. "Currently, we are being driven by our Look East policy and our first country for co-operation is China." Harare's Herald website quoted the unpopular leader as saying. President Mugabe was addressing a delegation from the Communist Party of China at a meeting in Harare on Thursday. He said relations between the two countries dated back to the struggle for independence, which Beijing backed to the hilt. "Now that we are independent and sovereign, we have pursued together ways of how we can transform our socio-economic systems for the benefit of our people."
Zimbabwe and China had always been criticised by Western countries at international forums on false grounds that they did not uphold human rights. But the United Nations had always found nothing wrong with the human rights records of China and Zimbabwe, Mugabe said.
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