VICE-PRESIDENT Mutale Nalumango says the Swedish and Finnish Embassies did not fly Rainbow flags on Zambian land, because an embassy is regarded as a sovereign state under international law. Asked, during the Vice-President’s question time by Mpika PF member of parliament Francis Kapyanga, what action government took against the two embassies after flying LGBTQ flags last month, Vice-President Nalumango said government could not interfere in an embassy because it was regarded as a sovereign state even though it was on the Zambian soil. “Now, you have gone to an issue of an embassy, to start with colleagues, Honourable member, the past four years they have been flying that, where were you? Go and ask them, where were you? I’m speaking...

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