Mr Hichilema said his party will continue to both local and international agencies because they are fully aware that not doing so my be catastrophic for the country and its democracy.
He said his party will not engage in unproductive debate the partners they are engaging with as opposed to insinuations by opponents.
“The ugly acts of political suppression, including those we have been subjected to, the abuse of security agencies, biased public media, intimidation of journalists, and other gross human rights abuses are some of the key issues we have been engaging the international community on. This dialogue includes a recent event where we hosted a number of diplomats accredited to Zambia.
“We shall keep engaging both local and international agencies because we are fully aware of what has happened in other countries when such engagements were undertaken only too late to prevent serious harm and democratic weakening.
“We are making it clear here that we have no room for unproductive debates with these partners as being insinuated by our opponents. Our strong Christian values and primary focus on the development of our people are our guiding lights in this respect,” said Mr Hichilema.
Mr Hichilema further reassured both the local and international community that Zambia still has a conducive environment for doing business despite the current happenings in the political scene.
“We shall also keep reassuring the local and international community of the conducive environment for business in Zambia, despite the current happenings in the political scene that has the potential to scare away potential investors at a time the majority of our people, especially youths and women, need job opportunities.
“These are issues that are so dear to us, rather than thinking about training a militia wing in the middle of a highly populated town and residential areas. Such actions would completely undermine our focus on economic growth and development, and unlike those who would accuse us we know that peace and unity is requirement number one for progress and improved living conditions for all Zambians,” he said.
Please put the right picture this helps with the context
Morgan Tsvangirai of Zambia…………..the international community will soon get tired of him.
YOU ARE ASKING FOR TOO MUCH FROM LT. I STOPPED COMPLAINING BECAUSE IF I DID I WOULD BE COMPLAINING ABOUT MANY THING IN EVERY ARTICLE AND IN THE END HAVE HEART ATTACK. THEY HAVE GOT NO STANDARD THE LT CHAPS.
Idi0ts as usual cannot use their small brains to tell that HH was teargassed and he moved from the place he was teargasses to stand with people with who were far away from the teargas. Those HH is standing with were on side where the effects of tear gas did not reach.
Whatever happens 2016 Lungu Kuyabelebele.
VIVA UPND the party of choice in 2016.
@Wanzelu you are the blockhead here always supporting what you know us wrong. HH and all those UPND supporters were warned by Police to stay away from the police interview of GBM. The police were forced to spray tear gas to disperse the large marauding crowd of UPND. Civil disobedience and attacking police who are public servants protecting us, even at the cost of their own lives should be respected by citizens. It’s deplorable that you feel Zambians should disobey their gov’t and police services so you can force yourselves onto the people in the absence of majority support.
So PF idoits can not see that all the people surrounding HH have covered their faces with clothes except one man whose eyes also show that he equally affected by the tear gas.
Yaba PF minions have really gone blind with their eyes peeled.
By the way I listened to some conversation by the international community, the are saying they are prepared to intervene at the earliest possible time to avoid the repeat of what happened in Zimbabwe and now Burundi.
If Lungu thinks the British can come to clean up his mess he will be shocked when Cameron and Obama send special forces to protect HH and dislodge and arrest him like the Gbagbo way of ivory coast.
What happened in Zim was mistake which the western world do not want to repeat.
VIVA UPND the party of choice in 2016.
Correction…!
Civil disobedience and attacking police who are public servants protecting us, even at the cost of their own lives should be condemned, police should respected by citizens!
This Kachema WA mbuzi never ceases to amaze me.See how he’s pretending to have been teargased, look at the picture again the other people around him don’t seem to be affected like him
mmm.. hh mentioning Christianity here. “from darkness to light”. why this sudden change?
the guy really wants to go to plot 1 at all costs.
next, we will see him receiving holy communion at one of the catholic church.
the guy is so desperate such that he is unashamed to even swallow his own vomit.
….. “sebena wikute.”
@Mature. HH knows he needs to cheat Zambians by pretending to respect their Faith. He knows that the perception that he and UPND are unchristian is bad Media limiting his attempt at popularity.
But really why bother? People can’t be hoodwinked by this flawed character. He is just NOT appealing!
Slave mentality. Anything that happens we run to our slave masters. What is wrong with us black people. Cant we deal with our own problems without involving a white man?
Slave mentality? What an ldiotic comment! We are in a global community where all leaders of the world and their representatives are our PARTNERS. HH has correctly called them partners here. Your hate for H.E Hakainde Hichilema is kiiliing you. Swine!
@Sumtwe, so you finally agree that we are in a global community? But why do you always deny when we tell you that Zambias economic problems are a result of the global economic problems?
THIS IS ONE THING YOU SHOULD KNOW AND UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS GUY. HE THINKS WHITE PEOPLE ARE ANGELS. WHITE PEOPLE ARE JUST YOU AND ME HUMAN BEINGS, PERIOD. BUT, HH HAS GOT THAT MASTER-SLAVE MENTALITY. OR SHOULD WE SAY INFERIORITY COMPLEX ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE- THE SAME PEOPLE HE CALLS PIGS. THIS CHAP IS A BIG SHAME IN THE ZAMBIAN POLITICS AND COME NEXT ELECTIONS, HE MUST COMPLETELY BE DELETED FROM POLITICS BEFORE HE CAUSES TROUBLE IN ZAMBIA. I THINK NI CIMBWI SANA. YOU MEAN THERE ARE NO OTHER TONGAS WHO CAN LEAD UPND?
you would rather cry their money in donations and loans
@william tekere
tell your that to your corrupt leadership who have just gone back crawling to the western controlled IMF with there tails between their legs
@Peter,
why dont your go back to wearing skins and writing in you mother tongue, dont use this white mans language.
@William T correct. @Peter correct. This HH character is a great shame to Zambia. We have been building our country, he is destroying. We shall rid Zambia of him and his militia party.
Lungu and his pf have completely eroded and trampled on human rights in Zambia. Behind Lungu’s musk of humility is a devil who wants to destroy this beautiful country of Zambia. He is completely drunk with power. Power if used wrongly can be a very deadly tool of mass destruction. Let Lungu sober up.
you are a potential refugee.
@ mature
Same apply to you to
What’s the measure of humility. Kadansa is a pompous & boastful fellow.
For me this is not about whether HH wins, its about whether we continue to allow Zambia to lose. We wouldn’t have need to engage the international community if our internal structures allowed us to participate equally.
At the moment the alternative to engaging outsiders is to go to war. What would you choose.
War, we’ll show you who the people of Zambia are. We can rise to your challenge and finish your UPND and put your foreign friends in place.
Keep up the good fight HH. A fight which doesn’t involve militia or cussing but one of intellect & good deed.
International community only want Africa’s natural resources that GOD gave us. If you are blind to that, you need spiritual help.
Start praying for maize
Shonongo will continue to smoke teargas canisters.
viva my president God z watching lungu z going back to chawama on 11th augst
MY FRIEND YOU WILL STOP AFTER 11 AUGUST, 2016 THIS YEAR WHEN PEOPLE FINALLY GET RID OF YOU FROM THE POLITICAL SCENE. YOU THINK PLANNING TO DISTURB THE COUNTRY DESERVES ANY EXCUSE FROM ZAMBIANS? ULICIPUBA. FROM BEING TRIBAL NOW YOU ARE ORGANISING TROUBLE. I HAVE GOT A LOT OF RELATIVES THERE WHOM I WOULDN’T LIKE TO SEE RUNNING AROUND HOPELESSLY BECAUSE OF YOUR STVP1D APPETITE FOR POWER. I AM APPEALING THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA TO OPEN THEIR EYES WIDELY AND DISCARD THIS !D!OT FROM POLITICS.
”…I AM APPEALING THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA TO OPEN THEIR EYES WIDELY….”
It is the PF police lies and corruption and mismanegment by PF that the people of Zambia have opened their eyes to.
Your time looting from the zambian embassy is ending in August….
@Peter we hear you! Your call is one all Zambians should adhere to. Let us walk together with one heart for the benefit of our country, families and in value to the life God Almighty gifted us. Let us give Jesus love to one another. Let us not be waylaid by wicked people like UPND and it’s lost Leader HH.
Peter I have always told that your tribal song does not make sense to most youths in Zambia we are intermarried we don’t have pure breeds.so take your tribal remarks to the late stone age caves .Our choice is HH full stop.This ka lungu has failed.we shall skin him alive if he fails to hand in power.
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let alone pf it has and it is doing extremely fine no change forget no matter how much yu complain.
So Training Of Militia Has Now Become A Human Right? Shame
This character, HH, is so full of Methane gas, and is just breaking wind all over Zambia defiling our breathing air. Next time he far.ts some dutiful Zambia should hold a lit matchstick to his ar.se………KABOOOOM..right OUT of Zambia into the arms of his foreign mates!
Imagine the mentality of this character….if they won’t vote for me I’ll make trouble and start a war.
Ati start a war, with 8 pangas, 3 catapults, 1 golf club and 1 pistol and boxing gloves????
It is not yet April’s fools day guys….wait until April
Ati start a war, with 8 pangas, 3 catapults, 1 golf club and 1 pistol and boxing gloves????
It is not yet April’s fools day guys….wait until April…
Zambians and diplomats know you cant start a war with 8 pangas, 3 catapults, 3 boxing gloves, 1 Golf club and 1 Pistol.
I keep thinking its Aprils fools day….
Patriot abroad,
It’s not yet April’s fools day my friend.
Ati a war with 8 pangas, 1 spear, 1 golf club 3 catapults 3 boxing gloves and one pistol……..
Just because they have never engaged in any fierce fight, the pf police is so excited with the use of teargas and guns on defenceless zambians. As campaigns heat up, expect more casualties between zambians and pf police. A hungry man is an angry man!
Did we report you to ICC when you sold our companies? HH should not think that we are stupid. you sold our companies and now frustrating pipo who are busy building this country.
@miltz so you think you can fight with the police! You are very foolish then because each time you cause troubles you are always at the reaciving end and complaining. Simply say more casualties between foolish UPND and the police. Zambians are peacefull and law abiding my friend.
Some people can sell a country.
Which police who are also not paid up to now.police can not out number us if we mean to do what is required.Infact they will join.Lungu will wish he never born.