President Michael Sata has announced that government will open a mission in Poland to strengthen bilateral relations with that country.
President Sata said there was need to open a mission in Poland because Zambia’s relations with that country date back to the 1960s.
He said this when he and First Lady Christine Kaseba hosted a luncheon in honour of the visiting Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his wife Malgorzata Tusk at State House today.
President Sata thanked the Mr. Tusk for visiting Zambia.
And Poland Prime Minister, Donald Tusk said there was need to base future bilateral relations of the two countries on genuine friendship.
Mr. Tusk said he appreciated the warm welcome that he and his wife received during their visit to Zambia.
He has since invited President Sata to also visit Poland in future.
Meanwhile, President Sata has received a tea set from late Cardinal Adam Kozlowiecki Foundation and Fine China, a company which manufactured the tea set.
Fine China has been in existence for more than 200 years.
Earlier, President Sata held a closed door meeting with the Polish Prime Minister at state house before hosting a luncheon for him and his delegation.
And President Sata has called on the Polish business community to explore several areas of investment in Zambia.
President Sata said government was committed to providing a conducive environment for trade and investment because Zambia was endowed with abundant natural resources.
He has therefore implored the Polish business community to take advantage of Zambia’s good investment climate and quality manpower to explore various areas of investment especially in infrastructure and agriculture.
President Sata extended the invitation to the Polish investors when he held a closed door meeting with that country’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his delegation at State House today.
The President said he recognised Poland‘s impressive economic growth in the European Union (EU).
Mr. Sata has consequently called for increased exchanged of trade delegations between the two countries.
And Poland Prime Minister, Donald Tusk assured President Sata that the Polish government was ready to see strengthened
bilateral relations with Zambia such as increased economic, social and political relation with African countries.
He said Poland was ready to assist Zambia in the agriculture, education and scientific research sectors.
Mr. Tusk further said Zambia was included in his regional visit because of its growing reputation of being a symbol of stability and predictability on the international arena and the Southern Africa region.
Meanwhile, Zambia’s first republican President Kenneth Kaunda has extolled the late first Bishop of Lusaka, Adam Kozlowiecki, for the role he played in promoting unity in the country.
Dr. Kaunda said Zambians must emulate the late Polish missionary by promoting love for each other.
He said this in Lusaka today at the art exhibition which was attended by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in honour of late Cardinal Kozlowiecki at Lusaka Museum.
Dr. Kaunda, who midway in his speech, broke into his trademark song ‘Tiyende Pamodzi’ (Let us move in unity), called on all Zambians to love one another.
He said the country should embrace the spirit of the ‘One Zambia! One Nation motto’ which he said came about because of inspiration from the late Cardinal Kozlowiecki whose work was centred on loving other people.
And speaking during the same occasion, Deputy Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs Susan Kawandami said there was need to provide more financial resources to museums in Zambia.
Ms. Kawandami said museums play an important role in documenting and preserving the culture and history of any nation.
She said Lusaka Museum was currently faced with challenges hence it was difficult for the institution to execute its mandate.
Ms. Kawandami said lack of resources has hindered the museum from carrying out research that can help the country’s future generations.
She also pointed out that members of staff need training so that the museum can compete internationally.
Which relative is going next? Pick me! pick me shikulu!
@John Doe, you are very right. There is obviously already a list comprising 80% relatives 20% just cadres and probably one civil servants. Government accounts are now run by relatives who in most cases don’t even know the difference between debit and credit.
Ambassador – Wife’s direct relative
D/Ambassador – Cadre with police case
1st Sec Trade – Wynter’s girlfriend’s brother
1st Sec Information – Post photographer
1st Sec Tourism – A bemba married to an Easterner
Minibus & taxi drivers in Lsk & CB – Egg on face.
womanizer MP’s and relatives of sata, get ready to go go!!!! polish girls are hot and don’t mind pot bellies..plus all the cadres who have been screaming with the loudest voices during campaigns, go and embarass the nation.,.
what is in poland other than Racism??… poverty is really bad, it takes people to go beg to nations which clearly hates black people!!!
Have you ever been to Poland bwana sir/madam? you actually don’t know what you are taking about.
Poles are good,open,honest and hard working people. Their villages cant even be compared to some of our cities my dear!
There is an MP there of Zambian origin, Killion Munyama. Polish girls are easy going I know that for a fact. Poland is not as bad as the typical Eastern European countries.
ARE YOU SO DULL THAT YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW THAT IN POLAND THERE IS A BLACK ZAMBIAN MP?
Another unqualified Bemba gets the job.
God bless Sata, am really touched at how good he treats our grand father KK, this president has compassion which many of the people lack? i hope he sees many sunshine days and moonlights so he can bring Zambia to that promised land…… i can see light at the end of the turnel with this leader, yes, some will like you others wont, please dont shot!
Cindy do you know how many pipo sufferred at the hands of your hero KK.Most of them are not here to even watch him run around foolishly as he goes to many a podium to collect an award or give an uninspiring speech “….love God with all yuor heart and all your soul….”.He failed to show love to his citizen when it mattered most but now advises pipo to love one another.The only pipo that respect KK are those with short memories,those that dont read and those that have an interest like Panji his first born dull son who thinks it is the job of a minister to mount roadblocks.
Looks like Christine was running the show. Ba mudala looks lost in the picture. Like he had tried one of those sarcastic jokes of his and they didn’t impress.
thats why sata had her sit there, you can see the woman next to sata has a grotesque facial distortion, and thats why HH will always have his schadenfreude, and sata is always jaundiced at the site of other politicians, from that picture its clear he is swelling frustration. what a clusterfu.ck of a government
Mop i also noticed that he looks lost.Actually he looks more in place in the company of the likes of Chikwelete or Kambwili.
Ba LT, did you mean “Zambia to open a Bemba village in Poland?”
Ki ki ki ki ki wandepula chikamba.
A bemba village with Chikwelete maskerading as Ambassador.
True that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No.7 was in reference to what Tubulu stated.
There’s a Tonga Polish MP in the Polish Parliament called Munyama from HH’s village Monze west. That’s how accommodating and liberal the Polish society is.
i wish the UPND was as accomodating.
MORE BEMBAS ABROAD.
Why is Kasebanya not being sent to India to get treatment for the chronic nauseating open mouth syndrome that she clearly suffers from?
Was this budgeted for? Or is it the usual rhetoric? Put your house in order and stop opening unnecessary missions which are costly. The money spent on one mission per annum could build a decent school or hospital in Vumbwe or even Lusaka!
how about opening a hospital in a rural outpost. makes more sense i suppose
More taxpayer’s money going to waste especially it costs thousands to rent these places and Poland is of no strategic importance to us.
This I.d.I.o.t is at it again! Was this mission in the budget? Please advise this illiterate that opening a mission abroad will only suffocate our already strained resources!
Ba Mudala ba Sata never seems to learn. Minister Chikwanda just presented a budget to freeze wage and employment but his boss is already breaching the budget through careless pronouncements.
Are they telling us that the cost of opening in Poland has been budgeted for or is this another of those wild pronouncements that keeps annoying the same donors we lying to that we don have a budget deficit. Ba Shushuhsu please coach this man, he is becoming an embarrassment to the black continent.
imwe bantu, we need more missions in places that matter. loosen visa ristrictions for countries and make it visa on arrival and we will get the same in turn. zambian passport struggles in most missions because we are too rigid with our archiac immigration laws
restrictions, oops