Yugoslavia (and now Serbia as one of its successor states) was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, of which Zimbabwe is also a part.

Robert Mugabe met Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito in Brijuni, Yugoslavia, and again in Havana, Cuba in 1979.

[citation needed] Mugabe also invited Serbian minister Ivan Mrkić to Zimbabwe to begin talks on joint projects in the fields of infrastructure, agriculture, information technology and mining.

[citation needed] The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Ivica Dačić attended the state funeral of the former President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, in 2019.

In 2021, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Selakovic visited Zimbabwe and met with his Zimbabwean counterpart Frederick Shava.