President Rupiah Banda says his delegation has held fruitful discussions with the Turkish Government in various sectors that include health, tourism and education.
And the President says he is hopeful that Turkish airlines will begin direct flights into Zambia by October this year.
The President was speaking in an interview with Journalists in Turkey shortly before departure for Zambia Thursday morning.
President Banda says members of his delegation from various sectors of the economy held bilateral talks with their Turkish counterparts.
He is hopeful that the meetings will yield positive results for the two countries.
ZNBC’s Grevazio Zulu reports from Istanbul that the President says a Turkish delegation will soon be visiting Zambia for further discussions.
And the President has described the United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries as a success.
He says the delegates have reached consensus and will sign the agreement that will be dubbed the Istanbul declaration.
President Banda was among other World leaders that attended the UN conference on LDC’s.
He was seen off by Foreign affairs minister Kabinga Pande, Tourism Minister Catherine Namugala and German Ambassador to Zambia Jonstone Chizinga.
President Banda addressed the conference where he stressed his Governments commitment to eliminating poverty in Zambia and improving people’s living standards.
The President also presented a keynote address to a high level interactive debate on the theme ‘Harnessing trade for LDCs development and Transformation’.
The presentation highlighted Zambia’s success story in implementing business reforms and integrating measures to boost trade into National development plans.
During his stay in Turkey the President also held bilateral talks with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gull and the World Trade Organisation – WTO Director General Pascal Lamy.
The United Nations Conference on Least Developed countries is held every ten years at which a programme of action is agreed by member countries and corporating partners.
Hundreds of delegates from Governments, private sector, business associations, civil society, and international organizations that include the United Nations system are attending the Conference which closes on Friday.
The conference is set to adopt new measures and strategies after assessing the results of the 10-year action plan for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) which was adopted at the Third Conference on LDCs in Brussels, Belgium, in 2001.
ZNBC
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Direct flights into Zambia….. Good but our airport is a big joke! I know that the GRZ has many other immediate issues to sort out but in the long term they should look at complete overhaul of the so called international airport.
Fruitful discussion in health tourism and education…… what about sport?
How is Rupiah going to reduce poverty when he is busy abusing NAPSA? Rupiah the icon of corruption will not take us anywhere as far as development is concerned.
Let’s not condemn Zambians to another 5year of corruption,abject poverty,abuse of the judiciary,shootings and killings and other evils by voting for Rupiah and MMD.
VOTE MICHAEL SATA AND PF COME 2011.
Beware of tribal parties which split votes.