The United Nations (UN) has described Zambia as a symbol of peace and political stability in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region.
United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres has hailed Zambia for having remained a beacon of peace and stability in the Southern region as well as being an important member of the global governance body.Mr Guterres has also extolled Zambia for her continued desire to promote peace in the world by remaining one of the major contributor of peace troops to peacekeeping missions in the world.
Mr Guterres said this when he received the letter of credence from Zambia’s new Permanent Representative to the United Nations, His Excellency, Ambassador Dr Ngosa Simbyakula at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Before his appointment as Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amb Dr Simbyakula was Zambia’s envoy to the United States of America in Washington DC.He said the UN would continue to offer its total support to the Government of the Republic of Zambia for her effort to continue sending peacekeepers to countries where peace and political stability had remained elusive.
Mr Guterres informed Amb Dr Simbyakula that Zambia had remained an excellent friend and partner to the United Nations especially in the cause of providing shelter and other basic social needs to refugees.
“Zambia has been a symbol of peace and stability in the region. Zambia has been a peacekeeping country and I want to assure you of total support to the Government of the Republic of Zambia. You have played a tremendous role in taking care of refugees. Zambia has been an active member of the UN and we appreciate your role,” Mr Guterres said.
And His Excellency, Amb Dr Simbyakula has pledged Zambia’s commitment and support to the United Nations in its endeavor to achieve the objective for which the global governance body was formed.
Amb Dr Simbyakula said Zambia shall continue to partner with the United Nations in promoting peace anywhere in the world and would therefore continue contributing peace troops to peacekeeping missions.
He said Zambia was an oasis of peace and would therefore wish that all nations to be peaceful.
Amb Dr Simbyakula said climate change was among the challenges Zambia was facing and would work closely with the UN in finding solutions that would mitigate the devastating effects of the phenomenon.
“Mr Secretary General, I bring to you warm greetings from His Excellency, Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu, President of the Republic of Zambia. I want to assure of Zambia’s support as we work together to achieve the objectives of the United Nations. Zambia is committed to peace and stability and that is why we shall continue providing out troops to peacekeeping missions. We are an oasis of peace and we want peace to prevail everywhere in the world,” Amb Dr Simbyakula said.
Issued by:
Wallen Simwaka
First Secretary (Press)
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zambia to the United Nations
Congratulations Dr. Simbyakula, you have made Zambia proud. Mr. Gutierez, please tone down on those praises of the country, the bantustan savages will not be happy…..kwekwekwekwekwe….
After ECL blundered here with Foote he certainly believes Simbyakula could have done better to bail him out of his mess but alas! America recalled the Ambassador and seem nowhere near replacing him. Now Chagwa is looking to placing someone in America that can help them get out of this …clearly Simbyakula is not the man for the job. He is more tuned to captaining a smooth sailing ship than one that has hit an iceberg. They have failed to engage America from Zed now are looking to have a more aggressive ambassador to sort out the mess
…..I think it will be a case of enter Emmanuel Mwamba Hehehehehe! Ba PF bwafya kwena
Kapambwe is out again?
Where is gone?
What more can I say? We don’t even need to campaign. Our work speaks for itself. 2021 pamaka fye. Kz
Politically Zambia seems to be doing great in recycling, but what about the trash at City market, can’t we find ways of recycling it for the benefit of the country?
Diplomacy in Washington starts with having the right contacts in Washington-based think tanks. Does Emmanuel Mwamba know them? Without that forget it.
Does this Guterez man know that there is nothing happening in Zambia. Give him a glimpse of our economic stats for him to appreciate that peace is not the absence of war
Don’t worry about the UN headquarters. It’s not where the action takes place. It’s mostly a charade. The UN’s permanent 5 deliberately chose to hv a weak UN so that they remain in control. It’s only weak nations that think the UN is to be taken seriously.
Wina azalila… when opposition leader hoping bad news for the government of the day, good comes on the table
Poor Journalism!!!!! who has he replaced??? There are those who doesn’t know and may need to be informed.
Poor indeed. He replaces Kapambwe who is supposed to move to Washington DC. The truck is whether he will be given a chance given the diplomatic spat caused by the Panga Family.
Zambia has done well with the refugees. Hats off.
But to call Zambia peaceful following political killings is not right.
Simbyakula failed to run the DC office hence this embarrassing transfer. All the man did was attend parties on govt money. He couldn’t even articulate dual citizen process for Zambians in America.
There is no work for this moron at the Embassy in Washington since they sent Foote back. This is the man who failed to file his MP election papers in 2016 because he was too drunk
ECL has decided to play tit for tat. If USA will not have an ambassador in Zambia then Zambia will not have an ambassador on USA. So the incumbent has been removed from there and deployed to the UN. Just politics at play.
Congrats Simbyakula, thanks Guterres.
Chikonko mwikate h²!
There is no opposition in Zambia, just one or two bantustan parties led by a noisy pair who dont know when they are coming or going. There is no love list between me and Mmembe but I can confidently say that he is way better than Trible HH. Chimbwili is just puff and noisy but I like the way he makes PF dance with his insider knowledge.
For sure the chosen ones coming to redeem us from the PF charade composed of only one intelligent person, the rest are just followers and trumpets.