Tanzanian PM to tour Namibia

THE Prime Minster of Tanzania, Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda, is scheduled to arrive this afternoon for four-day official visit to Namibia.

Pinda will hold talks with Prime Minister Nahas Angula in the late afternoon and tomorrow he is expected to tour the Meatco factory and pay a visit to a diamond cutting and polishing factory, according to the Ministry of Information. The Tanzanian Prime Minister and his delegation will fly to Walvis Bay on Wednesday before inspecting the Etunda agricultural irrigation project and Omahenene fish-farming scheme in the north.Courtesy calls to State House and former President Sam Nujoma are included in the programme.Pinda will meet with the African Heads of Mission at a Windhoek hotel before his departure on Friday.The visit forms part of the cordial relations between the two countries.Tanzania provided support to exiled Namibians during Namibia’s liberation struggle.The Tanzanian government at the time trained hundreds of People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (Plan) members, and many Namibians obtained their secondary school and high school education in that country while in exile.Diplomatic relations between the two countries were established in 1991 when Namibia’s first President, Sam Nujoma, visited Tanzania and signed agreements on the establishment of the Namibia/Tanzania Joint Permanent Co-operation Commission.This Commission was inaugurated in 1999, when the then Tanzanian Foreign Affairs Minister Jekaya Kikwete visited Namibia.The Namibian High Commission in Dar-Es-Salaam was inaugurated in July 2007.Possible areas for co-operation are trade, agriculture, education, tourism, fisheries and mining.The Tanzanian Prime Minister and his delegation will fly to Walvis Bay on Wednesday before inspecting the Etunda agricultural irrigation project and Omahenene fish-farming scheme in the north.Courtesy calls to State House and former President Sam Nujoma are included in the programme.Pinda will meet with the African Heads of Mission at a Windhoek hotel before his departure on Friday.The visit forms part of the cordial relations between the two countries. Tanzania provided support to exiled Namibians during Namibia’s liberation struggle.The Tanzanian government at the time trained hundreds of People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (Plan) members, and many Namibians obtained their secondary school and high school education in that country while in exile.Diplomatic relations between the two countries were established in 1991 when Namibia’s first President, Sam Nujoma, visited Tanzania and signed agreements on the establishment of the Namibia/Tanzania Joint Permanent Co-operation Commission.This Commission was inaugurated in 1999, when the then Tanzanian Foreign Affairs Minister Jekaya Kikwete visited Namibia.The Namibian High Commission in Dar-Es-Salaam was inaugurated in July 2007.Possible areas for co-operation are trade, agriculture, education, tourism, fisheries and mining.