Committee on Economic Affairs and Labour pressures Mining Companies

A message below from John Lungu.
"On 28 February 2007, the Clerk of the National Assembly wrote to the Chamber of Mines (the representative body for the mining companies) asking them questions on the adequacy of Zambia's Legal and Policy Framework on Investment. The critical questions asked were:
i) What the national Investment objectives are
ii) What Government responsbilities to foreign investors are
iii) What Government responsibilities to local investors are
iv) What the investors responsibilities to workers are
V) What the investors responsibilities to the communities within which they operate are; and
vi) What the responsibilities of the investors are to the economy at large. The answers the Chamber of Mine will provide to these questions will be very interesting to follow because they will either provide the defence we all await for or will agree with the findings of the report "For Whom the Windfalls?" The CSTNZ and CCJDP in Lusaka should be on the lookout when the General Manager of the Chamber of Mines finally appears before the parliamentary committee.
John Lungu"