The idea was mooted after a four-day major international conference on doing business with Africa where US ambassador Charles Ray spoke to hundreds of representatives from US, European, and African businesses and handed out information sheets that said: “Zimbabwe is Open for Business.”
"Given the interest that we sparked from that event, we put on a trilateral business dialogue in conjunction with the Corporate Council on Africa and Business Unity South Africa where we brought together a dozen firms each from the US, South Africa, and Zimbabwe in Victoria
Falls in June to talk about the opportunities for business here," Ambassador Ray told a policy dialogue seminar in Harare Thursday.
"We had Microsoft, Proctor and Gamble, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Cargill, General Electric, and many other firms here to see for themselves the prospects for business in Zimbabwe. Building on the success of that event, we are now working with the American Business
Association in Zimbabwe – or ABAZ – to assemble a delegation of Zimbabwean business leaders to attend a U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Washington, DC.”
Ambassador Ray said the US was eager to work closely with the business community and
Zimbabwean government across the political spectrum to find new and collaborative ways to build on these efforts for the mutual benefit of the two countries.
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