FINANCE Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane says government is slightly off target of clinching the IMF programme by June. And Dr Musokotwane says Zambia has received an invitation to participate in the creditors meeting, which is being organised by the Paris Club, this Thursday. Speaking during a media briefing, Tuesday, Dr Musokotwane said talks with Zambia’s creditors had delayed, and that had also affected government’s June target for clinching the IMF deal. “We were ready from December last year to say when is the meeting going to take place. Unfortunately, the meeting took a little bit longer than we had anticipated, we had said by end of June we should have the IMF programme in, by that time, the debt crisis,...

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