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 HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A Zimbabwe Foreign Ministry official gatecrashed the U.S. embassy's July 4 celebrations Wednesday to criticize the outgoing ambassador.
Samuel Mhango criticized Ambassador Christopher Dell for remarks he made Wednesday. Dell commented on the assault by police of opposition leaders in Harare in March, the country's worsening economic crisis and what Dell called "the growing climate of desperation and oppression" in Zimbabwe.
"Diplomats are supposed to be bridge builders not bridge busters," Mhango said. "We believe ... that national day receptions such as this one are occasions for us to congratulate each other, to say positive things about each other. They are not occasions to attack or abuse each other."
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