By Margaret Kamba 

ZANU PF Secretary for Information and Publicity Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa says the quest for peace is more urgent now than ever.

His remarks were made soon after a meeting between the ZANU PF leadership and the Secretary General for the Chinese People’s Association of Peace and Disarmament. 

The Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament (CPAPD) is the largest nationwide non-governmental peace association with a total of 24 important member organizations. It was founded in June 1985 by various concerned mass organizations and prominent personages from all walks of life in China.

The objectives of the CPAPD are to promote mutual understanding, friendship and cooperation between the peoples of China and the rest of the world in joint efforts to maintain world peace, oppose arms race and war, achieve arms control and disarmament, strive for the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, protect ecological environment and promote economic development and social progress.

The Chinese delegation led by its Secretary General An Yuejun met Secretary of External Relations Cde Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Cde Mutsvangwa and Cde Munyaradzi Machacha the Principal of the Chitepo School of Ideology at the Party headquarters in Harare.

"It is the institution which champions a peaceful world where we avoid war and we avoid prospect of nuclear mutual destruction in the rivalry between super powers," Ambassador Mutsvangwa said.

 "With what is happening in the Middle East today, the genocide which is unfolding, we can only say the quest for peace can only be more urgent. We also see attempts at dividing the sub-region, the SADC states one against the other as was in our election outcome. We also want peace in our sub-region."

The West has continuously caused wars in many countries in its pursuit to be a super power through the imposition of sanctions amongst other attempts to destabilize other economies.