Fellow Citizens,
Yesterday we were honoured to virtually participate and Chair the Southern African Development Community (SADC) organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, during the organ Troika Summit of Heads of State and Government currently underway in Harare, Zimbabwe.
In our remarks, we regretted that we were unable to be in Harare due to pressing national matters that required our presence here at home.
We however expressed our gratitude to His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the government and the people of the Republic of Zimbabwe for the warm reception and gracious hospitality to the Heads of State and the Zambian delegation.
We thanked their Excellencies for their invaluable support rendered to us and indeed Zambia during our tenure as Chairperson of the Organ.
The Organ is the backbone of SADC, as it seeks to promote peace, security and political stability, without which socio-economic development would not be realised in our region.
We have pledged our full support to the incoming Chairperson for the Organ, the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan. We pledged to continue playing our role as the outgoing Chair in the remainder of this year and the year coming.
In our report to the organ, we noted that the political and security situation in the region has generally remained stable, notwithstanding some challenges in a few member states.
Hakainde Hichilema
President of the Republic of Zambia
