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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here       Daily Independent Online.         * Friday,July 16, 2004. Nigeria apologies to Zimbabwe over lack of invitation to CHOGM By Onyekachi Eze Senior Reporter, Abuja   Seven months after the end of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) hosted by Nigeria in December 2003, the Nigerian government has formally Apologised to Zimbabwe for not extending an invitation for its president to attend the summit. Foreign Affairs Minister, Ambassador Oluyemi Adeniji, told the outgoing Zimbabwean Ambassador to Nigeria, Kotsho Liyod Dube, that Nigeria’s position on the issue was misunderstood. “In CHOGM everything done is in consensus. The host nation has no power to influence anything,” Adeniji told the Ambassador, pointing out that Nigeria has to differ to such consensus for the meeting to hold. The minister observed that if an invitation had been extended to Zimbabwe there would have been a problem for Nigeria. He, however, expressed the hope that the committee set up by CHOGM on Zimbabwe would be an instrument to resolving the problem and called for deepening of dialogue between the two countries. He also expressed the hope that the visit by President Olusegun Obasanjo to Harare has mollified the passion of Zimbabweans. Responding, Dube expressed conviction that Nigeria would not allow extraneous issues to stain the long time relationship with his country and described his staying in Nigeria as “ups and down”. He said Zimbabwe understood the position of Nigeria on the CHOGM issue and the requirement for extending of invitation to any country. The Ambassador said Zimbabwe would continue its cordial relationship with Nigeria despite its pulling away from the Commonwealth.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.dailyindependentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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