Zimbabwe`s President Robert Mugabe was elected to the post of 1st Vice Chair of the African Union Bureau, the supreme organ of the African Union.
Mugabe is currently in Addis Ababa Ethiopia attending an AU summit.
The task of the bureau is to steer the agenda of the organisation with the assistance of the African Union Commission.
The bureau is chaired by the Chairman of the African Union who is assisted by three deputies and a rapporteur.
Each member of the bureau represents one of the five African regions, namely West Africa, North Africa, East, Central and Southern Africa.
Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said the selection of Zimbabwe into the African Union Bureau is an expression of confidence in President Mugabe’s leadership and a great honour to the country.
Mugabe`s appointment as first Vice Chair of the bureau makes him eligible for the chairmanship of the African Union in 2015.
Previously the European block did not want Mugabe to attend the forum but at an executive meeting of African Union Ministers the continent declared they would not attend the summit if Mugabe was not invited.
On Thursday Mugabe chaired an extraordinary summit of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as Joyce Banda the current Chair person was not attending.
The e summit was dedicated to the issues of Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a decision was reached to scrap imposed sanctions on Madagascar.
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