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STATEMENT – President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have made it a priority to reinvigorate America’s relationships around the world. They have been working hard to strengthen our existing partnerships and build new ones to meet shared challenges, from climate change to ending the threat of nuclear weapons to fighting disease and poverty.
The current US ambassador to Zimbabwe, Charles Ray moved swiftly on Tuesday to mitigate the damage caused by the leakage of diplomatic cables sent to Washington by his predecessor Ambassador Christopher Dell. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Ray said “I cannot vouch for the authenticity of any one of these documents. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential. And we condemn it.”
A confidential 2007 diplomatic cable from the outgoing American ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell, is among the U.S. State Department documents released online by the website WikiLeaks on Sunday. In the cable, Dell outlines his views of Zimbabwe’s prospects at the time – eight months ahead of the 2008 elections — and gives blunt assessments of key political figures.
The Wiki Leaks website, an international non-profit media organization that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous sources and leaks has begun publishing a quarter million classified United States documents. The exposures contain top secret cables sent to Washington by US diplomats from around the world.