Zambia: Serbia Offers to Help Zambia in Infrastructure Develop

By Kingsley Kaswende

Lusaka — Manojlovic - my government decided to reopen its embassy in Zambia to re-build relations the two countries enjoyed during the Yugoslavian days

THE government of Serbia and Montenegro has offered to help Zambia in infrastructure development.

Charge d'affaires at the embassy of Serbia and Montenegro, Mirko Manojlovic, said his government decided to reopen its embassy in Zambia three months ago to re-build relations the two countries enjoyed during the Yugoslavian days.

Manojlovic said his country had a lot of experience in agriculture, machinery, furniture and infrastructure development, which it hoped to teach Zambia.

"Zambia is probably the richest country in the region. It has a lot of possibilities and we want to build our relations from where we had left off. During the 1970s, our engineers were in Zambia and they built a lot of good infrastructure. We offer to help in the construction of more infrastructure," he said.

Proclaimed in 2003, Serbia and Montenegro is the name of a union of two former Yugoslav republics.

The state is located on the west-central Balkan Peninsula, bordering Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania.

Manojlovic, who has since moved with his family to Lusaka, said Zambia had scored many successes in the recent past, including instituting good reforms and winning debt relief.

He said these, coupled with good copper prices, would provide the basis for the turnaround of the economy. "It is clear that the government sees possibilities and our role is to strengthen those possibilities," said Manojlovic.

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