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Iran''s President Ahmadinejad meets with President Mugabe

(23 Apr 2010) SHOTLIST 1. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad walking into media conference 2. Wide of Mugabe and Ahmadinejad standing behind table 3. Pan from Mugabe seated to Ahmadinejad 4. Various of signing ceremony with Zimbabwean and Iranian officials 5. Representatives shake hands 6. Wide of media presser 7. Mugabe and Ahmadinejad seated 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President: "President Ahmadinejad and myself have the same policy and same stance anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and a stance to protect our sovereignty and our right of ownership of our resources." 9. Cutaway of delegates 10. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President: "Iran and Zimbabwe are two countries that continue their efforts to maintain their sovereignty freedom and they move in the path of independence and they do everything in the path of peace, brotherhood and justice." 11. Mugabe and Ahmadinejad shaking hands STORYLINE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, one of President Robert Mugabe''s dwindling number of international allies, begun a state visit to Zimbabwe on Thursday to officiate at the signing of bilateral cooperation agreements and open a trade exposition. A communique issued by the Zimbabwe Iran Joint Commission ahead of Ahmadinejad''s arrival said ministers of the two nations noted their commitment to "the promotion of peace and stability in their respective regions" and welcomed Iran''s proposals to host a nuclear international disarmament conference. At a joint media conference after a signing ceremony, Mugabe said the two countries share the same policy of " anti imperialist, anti colonialist and a stance to protect our sovereignty and our right of ownership of our resources." Iran has been under harsh criticism from Western nations for pressing ahead with uranium enrichment programmes it says are to produce nuclear energy amid fears the militant Islamic state could develop nuclear weapons. Iran is the biggest exhibitor at a trade exposition Ahmadinejad is scheduled to open in the second city of Bulawayo on Friday. In Zimbabwe''s ailing economy - along with white-owned and foreign companies being forced under a new law to hand over 51 percent control to black Zimbabweans - many traditional Western exhibitors and local industries have stayed away from the annual trade fair, once a showcase of regional goods and products. Ahmadinejad is the first leader from outside the African continent to open the exposition since independence from British colonial era rule in 1980. He is scheduled to visit an Iranian-funded textile firm in Harare later on Thursday and a vehicle assembly plant. Mugabe will host a state dinner for the Iranian leader in the evening. The communique by the joint commission which met Wednesday said in agricultural cooperation Iran proposed to assemble its models of tractors in Zimbabwe. The commission also agreed to set up a joint investment company to help develop industry, energy, mining, water management and social and financial services. Apart from a grant of two (m) million US dollars to health services, no other amounts of funding were mentioned. Zimbabwe''s economy went into free fall after disruptions caused by the often violent seizures of thousands of white-owned farms that began in 2000. After world record inflation, a yearlong coalition between Mugabe and the former opposition leader Prime Minister Moorage Tsvangirai abandoned the local currency, adopting hard currencies - mostly the US dollar - for all purchases and transactions. Ahmadinejad. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...