CORDIAL RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBOURS VITAL – KALABA

Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:07:26 +0000

By Mukosela Kasalwe

ZAMBIA will continue to build on its cordial relations with neighboring countries to boost her trade outlets and activities, says Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba.

Mr. Kalaba said Zambia being a landlocked country needed the cooperation of other countries such as Tanzania to take its goods to the sea for trade purposes.

The minister said this yesterday in Lusaka when he met outgoing Tanzania ambassador to Zambia Grace Mujuma and emphasized on the need to build on what the two country’s founding fathers Dr Kenneth Kaunda and Julius Nyerere had laboured on.

Mr Kalaba described Zambia’s relations with Tanzania as warm as evidenced by its leaders namely President Joseph Magufuli and President Edgar Lungu exchange of ideas on various issues.

Mr Kalaba wished the ambassador the best in her new endavours and expressed hope that her predecessor would build on what she had achieved.

“Zambia and Tanzania’s relations are at the highest levels, this is seen in the way President Edgar Lungu and his brother Joseph Magufuli interact and share ideas on various issues.

Being a landlocked country Zambia needs the cooperation of its neighbouring countries to take goods to the sea for trade,” had said.

Mr Kalaba said Tazara rail line as well as the Tazama pipeline and other forms of cooperation soon to follow were testimony of the coexistence between the two countries.

Ms Mujuma described Zambia as her second home having spent 5 and half years of her stay.

Earlier, newly Palestinian ambassador to Zambia Walid Hassan said he admired Zambia’s peaceful nature and that Palestine was determined to achieve causes of peace with Israel.

Dr Hassan said Paleststine could work with Zambia in the agriculture, technology and in other areas of cooperation of economic development.