Great conversations around climate change and its effects we have had so far with fellow World Leaders.
So far we have met the U.K. Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP and António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
We have also spent time sharing notes with fellow Heads of State ahead of this afternoon’s World Leaders’ Summit here in Glasgow, Scotland.
Among them, President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya who we discussed a wide range of issues beneficial to Zambia and Kenya and also President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, with whom we discussed issues concerning cultural diversity between our two Nations, while fostering trade and investment.
And with our counterpart from Congo, President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, we reiterated our call for an urgent need to commence trade and investment processes between our two countries.
With Presidents Lazarus Chakwera, Hage Geingob, Emmerson Mnangagwa and João Lourenço of Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Angola respectively, we discussed issues on the value of trade links among our countries as we position Zambia to become land-linked and subsequently benefit from her God given geographical position in the Southern African sub region.
We also discussed issues of mutual interest with the President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari and later discussed issues of trade links with the Comoros President Azali Assoumani.
And lastly, we stressed the need for Africa to look for solutions from within.
Out of these engagements, we are confident that Zambia will to a large extent benefit and drift from an economically down trodden Nation to a food basket.
Zambia will be great again because together, we are rebuilding it.
May God Bless our Country.
Hakainde Hichilema
President of the Republic of Zambia.
