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(TIMES) Zambia to expand trade with Angola

Zambia to expand trade with Angola
By Times Reporter

PRESIDENT Mwanawasa has said Zambia will expand its trade with neighbouring Angola, as it is the closest route to the sea. Dr Mwanawasa said Angola, which had gone through civil war in the past, was an important neighbour to Zambia. Speaking to journalists at Lusaka International Airport yesterday before leaving for Angola on a four-day State visit, President Mwanawasa said the Government wanted a railway line to be re-opened from Chingola through Lumwana in Solwezi to the sea via Angola. He said the Government was trying to find an investor for the project.

“Angola is a very important neighbour and we would like to diversify our trade. Angola is the closest route to the sea. My trip is to the extent important. We would like a railway line to be re-opened through Chingola and Lumwana,” he said.

Dr Mwanawasa said he was travelling to Angola at the invitation of his counterpart, Jose Eduardo Dos Santos.

He said this was the first time he was travelling to that country on a State visit.
The President, while in Angola, would also sign of agreements on extradition and transfer of prisoners of the two countries and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Zambia’s North-Western and Angola’s Benguela province.

President Mwanawasa who was accompanied by the First Lady Maureen’s entourage to Angola includes Communications and Transport Minister, Dora Siliya, Energy Minister, Kenneth Konga and North-Western provincial minister, Kenneth Chipungu.

Labels: ANGOLA, MWANAWASA, TRADE

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