Zambia's trade minister has lauded Egypt for its perfect organizing of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Summit in, which was recently held in Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian diplomat said on Friday.

The Zambian minister's remarks were made after she returned home from Egypt as she represented Lusaka to the tripartite summit, Egypt's ambassador to Zambia and representative to COMESA Raga'ei Nasr said.

She said that history would tell that the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) grouping COMESA, SADC and EAC was signed in Egypt, Nasr added.

The Egyptian envoy said the Zambian minister praised Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi as "a great African leader", hailing the speech he delivered during the summit.