U.S. Embassy responds to Herald's false story

January 17, 2007

The story in today’s Herald newspaper alleging a meeting on January 9 2007 between U.S. Ambassador Christopher Dell and representatives of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is false.  Neither Ambassador Dell, who was not in Harare on that date, nor any other United States of America Embassy official, attended the alleged meeting referred to in the story.

Paul Engelstad
Public Affairs Officer