Zambia urge Sri Lanka to partner businesses

PRESIDENT Mwanawasa has encouraged the Sri Lankan private sector to partner with their Zambian counterparts in developing the country's entrepreneurship that will strengthen bilateral relations. The President said that Zambia possess abundant natural resources, which could be utilised to boost the agricultural and other key sectors for development.

Mr. Mwanawasa was speaking when he received credentials from the new Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Zambia, Raja Rajakuruma, and Ambassador-Designate of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, An Hui-Jang, at State House in Lusaka.

"Zambia," he said, "looked forward to the establishment of a joint Permanent Commission of Cooperation with Sri Lanka so that the two nations could identify areas of mutual benefit.

The two countries had over the past years shared warm and cordial relations founded on mutual trust, friendship and equality. And it was the President's hope that the two countries would work towards implementing the agreements which would further enhance bilateral cooperation.

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