President Lazarus Chakwera at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on Tuesday received credentials from ten envoys representing different countries.
Aldler Aristilde, the newly appointed High Commissioner of Canada to Malawi, highlighted in an interview following the presentation of his credentials that Canada aims to establish partnerships and enhance relations with Malawi.
The Canadian envoy said; “We are interested in furthering Canadian support in the areas of agriculture, health, gender equality and we would like to also bring in investments to enhance trade”.
On his part the new Korean ambassador to Malawi, Park Jae-Kyung said he was looking forward to enhancing what he described as excellent relations between Malawi and the Republic of Korea with the aim of improving the welfare of citizens in the two countries.
“Agriculture, health and education are the priority sectors for the developing cooperation, we will be enhancing the agriculture sector by providing trainings for agricultural
programmes and the health sector is not left out as this afternoon we will be handing over medical equipment to Daeyang Luke hospital worth US500 thousand dollars,” said the Korean ambassador.
The envoys have pledged to work towards achieving great potentials for both countries.
Other ambassadors who presented their letters of credence were from France, Sierra Leone, Cyprus among others and all the new envoys will not be resident in Malawi.
