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Article: Zambian government urged cautious to re-negotiate on mine agreements
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 10, 2007
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Zambian government urged cautious to re-negotiate on mine
agreements
LUSAKA, May 10 (Xinhua) -- The Zambian government must be cautious
when it re-negotiates agreements with mining firms because bungling
the process might lead to loss of confidence by foreign investors in
the country's business environment, the country's business community
said here on Thursday.
"We are advising the government to take a diplomatic stance when
re-negotiating these agreements with the mines," Mwila Imakando,
president of the Economic Association of Zambia (EAZ), an economic
think-tank, told journalists.
He said handling of the negotiations should be done cautiously
because any negative implications that ...