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President Thabo Mbeki Leads South African
Delegation to the World Food Summit and NEPAD Implementation
Committee Meeting, Rome, 10-13 June 2002
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini
Zuma announced today, Friday 7 June, the visit to Rome
by President Thabo Mbeki to attend the World Food Summit
and the NEPAD Implementation Committee Meeting from
10-13 June 2002.
The World Food Summit could not have been scheduled
for a better time given the current food crisis around
the world in general and the SADC region in particular.
In this context, President Mbeki is expected to deliver
a keynote address to delegates at the Food Summit on
Monday 10 June. The Summit will focus on reviewing advances
made since the 1996 World Food Summit; outlining measures
that leaders now envisage to reach the 1996 targets
as well as the mobilisation of the requisite political
will and resources to move forward at an accelerated
pace to achieve the 1996 targets.
Accordingly, South Africa is expected to:
· report on the progress made in respect of
the1996 World Summit plan of action
· projection of NEPAD as a framework to alleviate
among others food security in Africa
· provide an assessment and a way forward out
of the current food situation in SADC.
The President's delegation will include Ministers Dr.
Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Thoko Didiza and the President's
Economic Advisor Prof. Wiseman Nkhuhlu.
On Tuesday, the President will interact with other
heads of state from the five OAU regions at the NEPAD
Implementation Committee Meeting chaired by President
Olusegun Obasanjo, in preparation for the forthcoming
G8 meeting scheduled for Canada on 27 June.
The SADC region will be represented in the Implementation
Committee Meeting by SA, Botswana and Mozambique. They
will be joined by Ethiopia, Mauritius, Rwanda, Nigeria,
Senegal, Mali, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Egypt,
Algeria and Tunisia. The Chair of the OAU, Zambia, will
also attend including representatives.
For further information contact Ronnie Mamoepa at +
27 -82- 990- 4853.
Issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs
Private Bag X152
Pretoria
0001
07 June 2002
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