UN Habitat Organisation head to visit Zimbabwe
HARARE, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Head of the United Nations Habitat
Organisation Anna Tibaijuka is expected to attend a housing
convention from Oct. 26 to 30 in Harare this year, New Ziana said
on Thursday.
National Housing and Social Amenities Minister Fidelis Mhashu
said Tibaijuka and a senior European Union director were among
delegates expected to attend the convention, which is expected to
lift the housing delivery system in Zimbabwe to an international
level.
Tibaijuka created controversy in 2005 when she produced a
damning report on the clean up campaign that the government had
implemented to remove illegal structures in both urban and rural
areas throughout the country, the state news agency said.
"The EU director will make a presentation on possibilities of
the organization funding housing delivery in the country," Mhashu
said.
Mhashu said his ministry was frantically making preparations for
the convention whose participants will include both local and
international experts in housing delivery, law and fund
raising.
He said about 400 delegates were expected to attend the
convention, expected to be officially opened by President Robert
Mugabe and officially closed by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
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