The Lake Malawi border dispute between Malawi and Tanzania will be discussed in mutual trust, a State House official said Monday.

Sean Kampondeni, Director of Communications at State House told the Weekly Brief that the feeling of the country’s leaders was that the sensitive issue should be discussed in “mutual trust, respect and solidarity.”

He said the recent official visit of President Dr Lazarus Chakwera to Tanzania embolded the desire for the two countries to find a ” common ground” for solving the dispute.

“There’s need to first build bridges that will lead to a comprehensive negotiations and an amicable solution will be found in due time,” he said.

Taking further questions from the media, Kampondeni said Chakwera cannot comment on the  issue of costs to be awarded to MCP and UTM after winning the Presidential Election case because it’s a judicial matter and it’s still in court.

On 1 million jobs, the Presidential aide said the President is not back-tracking on the promise  but the nation should be aware that Government will be providing policies and a good environment so that the job market should thrive and more jobs be created.

On demonstrations of less women inclusion in the newly released boards for parastatals and MDAs, the Director said Chakwera always champions women representation and will continue to do so and will ensure that women are nominated in the boards on merit.

The media was also assured that the Tonse Administration respects the independence of the  Anti-Corruption Bureau and it will not interfere with its investigations on all cases it is pursuing.