Zambia has decided to use the Queen’s baton relay for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India to fight drug abuse among children. There is palpable interest in this southern African country as it awaits the aluminium baton for its three-day sojourn in the country. The baton will be arriving in Zambia from Malawi on 23rd January and will leave for Botswana on 25th. Speaking exclusively to AIR, media liaison officer of the Queen Baton’s Relay committee in Zambia, Mr Haroon Ghumra said, the committee has tied up with the Drug Enforcement Commission to use the relay to fight drug abuse.<br/><br/>He said that elaborate arrangements are being made to give a rousing welcome to the Queen’s Baton, which will arrive in Zambia on the 87th day of the relay, accompanied by a four-member delegation from Malawi. It is expected that Kenneth Kaunda, the first president of Zambia, who was a close friend of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, will participate in the relay in Lusaka. The relay was launched by British Queen Elizabeth II on October 29, last year from Buckingham Palace, in the presence of Indian President Pratibha Patil.