Mauritius has asked Zambia to support its candidature to the position of Assistant Secretary General of the African – Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO).

Mauritius High Commissioner to India Goburdhun Gosk said this was for the period of four years effective 2018.

“Mauritius is well placed to invite more francophone countries to join AARDO for the growth of the organization,” he said.

The top envoy of Mauritius to India made the call when he paid a courtesy call on Zambia’s High Commissioner to India Judith Kapijimpanga at the Zambian Chancery in New Delhi, India.

“AARDO demands that a Secretary General from Asia should be deputized by an Assistant Secretary General from Africa and vice versa,” he said.

And Mrs. Kapijimpanga urged her counterpart to write a Note Verbale for onward transmission to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Zambia to make a position.

“Zambia remains an active member of AARDO as it hosts regional offices in Lusaka and I take not of the fact that the organization, two weeks, ago approved funding of a community project in Mkushi at a cost of $20 000,” Mrs. Kapijimpanga said.

She said an African country would make sense to vie for the position as it understood challenges facing the continent.

This was contained in a statement made available by First Secretary Press and Tourism at the Zambian Mission in New Delhi, India, Bangwe Naviley.