Open Letter to His Excellency Akio Egawa, Ambassador of Japan to Zambia, His Excellency Mark Storella, Ambassador of the United States to Zambia, and His Excellency James Thornton, High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Zambia

June 6, 2013

Your Excellencies,

We respectfully address this open letter toward your distinguished offices with regard to recent commentary published in the Zambian media on the recent removal of fuel and maize subsidies by the Patriotic Front (PF) government.

On May 21, His Excellency Ambassador Storella was quoted as saying “Right now your government is making hard decisions on agriculture and government had to make these hard decisions because you cannot keep on subsiding maize forever because the country can go bankrupt and, ultimately, farmers too.”[1]