India’s Vice President Mohammad Ansari arrives in Zambia tomorrow, the 5th of January 2010 for a three day visit to Zambia.
The visit of India’s Vice President will be part of his three nations tour, which includes Malawi and Botswana, in the context of India’s commitment to maintain close and friendly relations with countries in Africa.
During his visit to Zambia, Mr. Ansari will call on President Rupiah Banda and also hold discussions with his Zambian counterpart, Vice President George Kunda on bilateral, international and issues of mutual interest.
This is according to a statement made available to ZANIS by High Commission of India in Lusaka today.
The Indian Vice President will also pay a courtesy call on Zambia’s First Republican President Dr. Kenneth Kaunda and meet the Minister of Foreign Affairs and other Cabinet Ministers.
Mr. Ansari will be accompanied by his wife Salma Ansari , who is scheduled to visit Mother Theresa’s Home in Lusaka and also expected to interact with members of Lusaka Indian Ladies Association (LILA).
He will also be accompanied by India’s Minister of State for Labour and Employment Harish Rawat, three Members of Parliament and other senior government officials, 15 member media delegation and a 16 member business delegation.
Zambia’s Vice President George Kunda will host an official dinner in honor Mr. Ansari tomorrow night at Intercontinental Hotel.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ansari, together with his delegation will visit Victoria Falls in Livingstone and is also interact with members of the Indian community in Zambia at a luncheon on January 7, which will be hosted by Indian High Commissioner to Zambia, Ashok Kumar.
Mr. Ansari’s visit would be the first high level visit to Zambia from India in 20 years from the last two visits undertaken by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1986 and President R. Venkataraman in 1989.
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Besides the bilateral issues, a joint programme of action on promoting trade relations with the African region, which is being finalised with the African Union Commission is also expected to figure predominantly in the talks between Ansari and his counterparts in these countries.
Briefing the reporters on the Vice President’s visit, Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs Vivek Katju said “an agreement for a Line of Credit (LoC) of USD 50 million for the Itezhi Tezhi Hydropower Project in Zambia is expected to be signed in the capital Lusaka”.
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So where we always want the president present other send a vice president i just hope he will be hosted like wise by his fellow vice president. It only makes sense but because we want to see the president doing something and he wants to be seen to be spearheading everything i wouldnt be surprised if he spends most of the time with this guy
Sir make sure you tell your relatives resident in Zambia to start paying our People decent salaries rather than those peanuts they pay them.
Ba mwenye nindoshi
And also tell your bretheren who are porported to be Zambian citizens to put the development of Zambia first not the externalisation of every kwacha erned.
Sir,please came and see KCM conditions of service
Indians like Musa buscuit who are murderers must go back with this vice president. They are busy killing each other here and practicing withcraft
I am sure GK will want to know how that country with a population of est 1.2bn people with an 72% living in rural areas manages to feed itself. The middle income group should be about half the total population. At 61% literacy levles Dora will also want to know a thing or two about investment in good eduaction. NOT free education NO. And just to know how he managed to win the VPship in a country that houses 17.5% of the world popualtion!! That must some serious competition. Also discuss how the silicon valley developed. How foreign owned companies have been forced to dilute shareholding by offering a percenatge to the locals. We need a re-juvenated role for PACRO in this regard. In Lusaka PEPSI is putting up a huge facility, thanks- but we want shares for the locals
And aloso tell youa pipo to employ us Zambians not bling more mwenyes to do the same jobo
The last binders on the sale of Zamtel ar from 1. Libya 2. Angola 3. Poutugo and 4. INDIA. So wat the man has come to do is ask RB to favour the indians thats all
China and India are the future global powers. So they are busy securing resources to fuel their growth. In a way, you have no choice but to deal business with them. We just have to make sure that we get the best out of these new economic ties. China and India are the new dudes in town. That’s why they are buying up companies in the West. E.g Tata now owns UK’s Range Rover and Jaguar cars. And Indian owns Corus, the UK steel companies. Similary China scooped Rover cars. China has now overtaken the US as the largest car market. India is catching up.
So a lot of our raw material exports will go to India and China. the West are already developed so they no longer consume as much of our copper.
It’s a new world. Let’s just be clever, shrewed and take advantage. They need us.