RB Convenes 6th ZIBAC Meeting

President Rupiah Banda has announced that the 6th Zambia International Business Advisory Council (ZIBAC) meeting will be convened in Livingstone from May 19 to 21, 2009.

Special assistant to the President for Press and public relations, Dickson Jere, said in a statement made available to Flavafm today that Mr. Banda said the meeting will be held at the Zambezi Sun.

Mr. Banda said the 6th ZIBAC meeting will comprise a team of ten high level business leaders from different countries and business sectors led by Lord Simon Cairns.

He said this years’ ZIBAC meeting theme of is “The Global Economic Crisis: Zambia’s Response to Growth and Competitiveness.

President Banda will officially open the ZIBAC meeting on Wednesday and will later chair some of the sessions before returning to Lusaka.

The ZIBAC process has been used in the past to identify key priorities and action plans to address issues such as telecoms policy, labour reforms, and private public partnerships for infrastructure development, citizen’s economic empowerment and mining agreements.

ZIBAC was created in 2003 to provide advice to the President Banda and his Cabinet through the support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), other Donors and the Commonwealth Business Council.