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Zambia in touch with China, other creditors, finance minister says

FILE PHOTO: Zambia's Minister of Finance Situmbeko Musokotwane addresses participants during the Initial Public Offer launch of Zambia's Konkola Copper Mine in the capital Lusaka, November 17, 2010. REUTERS/Mackson Wasamunu/File Photo

Zambia remains in touch with China and all its other creditors as it continues to negotiate a debt restructuring, finance minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said at an International Monetary Fund press conference on Saturday.

There is no alternative for Zambia, the first African country to default in the COVID-19 era in 2020, to the much-delayed Common Framework process for negotiating the restructuring, he said.

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