President Edgar Lungu yesterday met with the European Union delegation at State House.
The President discussed with the European Union Head of Mission to Zambia and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, His Excellency Mr Jacek Jankowski and his delegation a wide-range of issues affecting the country and of mutual interest to Zambia and the EU.
Welcoming the European Union Head of Mission and the EU delegation to State House, President Lungu outlined the issues for discussion as climate change and Government’s response to areas hit by floods, Human rights in relation to loss of innocent lives in the light of a spate of gassing across the country, emergency response to drought prone areas affected by hunger, including, corona virus among others.
During the meeting, the President assured the EU delegation that Government was in charge and was doing everything possible to ensure that in light of the gassing incidences, those who were breaking the law by killing innocent people through mob justice were dealt with.
The President explained that the Government had embarked on a sensitization campaign to educate people to refrain from taking the law in their hands by upholding the rule of law.
And the President called for continued dialogue between Zambia and the European Union and thanked the European community for its unwavering support to the country’s health sector and other areas of national development.
The meeting was called within the framework of the bilateral relations that Zambia and the European Union share premised on support for global efforts aimed at fighting poverty, combating climate change, promoting peace, sustainable development, good governance and human rights.
Speaking during the same meeting, EU Head of Mission in Zambia Mr Jankowski hailed the longstanding close collaboration between Zambia and the EU in sectors such as political and economic cooperation, defence and security among others.
Mr Jankowski informed the President that this year the European Union will commemorate 45 years of its presence in Zambia, and paid tribute to the partnership that exist between the two.
Other members of the EU delegation who attended the meeting comprised the Deputy EU Ambassador Mr Robert De Raeve, French Ambassador Mr Sylvain Berger, German Ambassador Mr Achim Burkhart, Irish Ambassador Mr Séamus O’Grady, Czech Ambassador Mr Radek Rubes, Finnish Ambassador Ms Pirjo Suomela-Chowdhury and Swedish Ambassador Ms Anna-Maj Hultgard.
The Zambian side comprised Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Joseph Malanji, Home Affairs Minister Mr Stephen Kampyongo, Health Minister Mr Chitalu Chilufya, Youth, Sport and Child development Minister Mr Emmanuel Mulenga. Others included the Secretary to the Cabinet Dr Simon Miti, Special Assistants to the President and senior government officials.
Ba Bandit lungu how much is meali meal today ? load shedding finished? How much is fuel today ?
Laughing stock..
Inflation is 13.9% , the Kwacha is $1USD to 14 ZMK and economic growth is down to just 2%. Lungu you should be meeting a delegation of 17m poorer Zambians instead of EU Bazungu.
EU what’s the money back , Bandits in PF.. Ba corruption next stop prison
Bandit President Lungu should be ashamed of himself…his wife also has become way too arrogant she thinks she’s an eletected official
Meeting bazungu just to beg money for his pockets and his fellow PF bandit cadres
Lusaka Times why dont you delete comments when i attack HH…..you know am non partisan and i criticize both but only when i criticize Lungu the comments gets deleted why
Lusaka Times if you keep on deleting comments your Website will soon be left with no traffic
Don’t worry when hh come to power he will pay farmers alot for their maize and reduce the meal meal to k50. There will be no more loadshedding between president hh will solve the problem overnight. Students will be paid more allowances and strikes will be the thing of the past. Forward with hh.
RB an economist guided the economy fairly well, I expect HH an economist to come and do the same. The lawyer has failed everything from economy to governance and including his field which is constitution.
Look at names of who represented Zambia, all total rubbish. Why not borrow:
1. Dora
2. Nawakwi
3. Namugala.
4. Sumaili.
5. Olipa Phiri.
Excellent and fruitful meeting with our partners. I enjoyed the fact that the delegation stressed the continued cooperation between our countries. A lot of positive developments in these discussions. I will soon be issuing my recommendation to our president on how best we should work with our friends.kz
Never has a Zambian president has had to be in a meeting with forigne ambassodors to address issues with concerns about
” good governance “and “human rights ” ,
only lungu……
ECL has no idea about the power of foreign policy establishments that back Western diplomats in Zambia. There’s no equivalent organisation in Zambia. Aftr this meeting the Westerners regrouped to evaluate hw their meeting with Lungu went. Did it achieve wht they sought to achieve? Wht do they believe from wht he said? Aftr that they will file no-holds-barred reports to their home countries. In those reports they can be as blunt as they want.
KZ
Can you update us when the USA will be replacing Foote ?
Kaizar Zulu how come the article didn’t mention that you were in the meeting. You just walk around in State House gate crushing ma meeting kikikiki
How many Gassing Masterminds have you caught so far since you came back from Russia? Tell us.
they have come to see failure and bad leadership
Lungu is the most incompetent, clueless and laughing stock of the world. Wasted years for Zambia. Zambia, wasted years! How did this ignoramus even become president?
The most incompetent, cluessless and worthless leader in Africa. Zambia is enduring wasted years. Totally, wasted years. How did this ignoramus even become president?