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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosazana
Dlamini Zuma to Co-Chair 3rd Session of South Africa
- Brazil Joint Binational Commission, Brasilia, Brazil,
Thursday, 28 - Friday, 29 October 2004
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma,
departs South Africa on Tuesday 26 October ahead of
the 3rd session of the South Africa - Brazil Joint Binational
Commission in Brasilia, Brazil from Thursday - Friday,
28-29 October 2004.
Minister Dlamini Zuma will lead a senior South African
government officials delegation from the Departments
of Foreign Affairs, Minerals and Energy, Environmental
Affairs, Health, Agriculture, Transport and Defence.
Brazil is South Africa's biggest trading partner in
Latin America. Brazilian exports to South Africa have
steadily increased from 1993 up to and including 1997
by almost 85%. For the year 2002, Brazil's exports to
South Africa took an upswing to US$447 683 121 resulting
in a trade balance of US$266 016 108 in Brazil's favour.
During the Joint Binational Commission, Minister Dlamini
Zuma will hold political and economic bilateral discussions
with her Brazilian counterpart, Minister Celso Amorim.
In this context the two ministers will brief each other
of:
- Regional developments with regard to SADC and Mercosur;
- The operationalisation of the African Union and
its organs, the Pan-African Parliament; the launch
of the African Peace and Security Council; the operationalisation
of the African Standby Force, Early Warning System
and African Court of Justice;
- The reform of multilateral institutions, including
the United Nations, the UN Security Council and Global
Finance Institutions;
- Development within the India-Brazil-South Africa
trilateral dialogue; and
- The global fight against terrorism.
The SA-Brazil Joint Binational Commission, which will
be co-chaired by Ministers Dlamini Zuma and Amorim,
is expected to review progress thus far made since the
last meeting of the Commission in respect of trade,
defence, transport, health, social services, minerals
and energy, and tourism.
TRADE RELATIONS STATISTICS
Major South African exports to Brazil:
Precious stones and metal, anthracite and coal, iron
and steel, miscellaneous chemical products, organic
chemicals, aluminium, herbicides, synthetic fibres,
machinery and mechanical appliances, paper and paperboard,
inorganic chemicals and mineral fuels.
Major Brazilian exports to South Africa:
Meat and edible meat offals, animal and vegetable oils,
tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes, ore slags
and ashes, mineral fuels, organic chemicals, raw hides
and skins and leather, ceramic products, machinery and
mechanical appliances, electrical machinery and equipment
vehicles and parts and accessories thereof, aircraft,
spacecraft and parts thereof.
Manufactured products from South Africa that are at
present entering the Brazilian market are:
Mining equipment, man-made filaments, chemicals, wine,
pool equipment, roof tiles, electricity meters, steel
tubes, glass and software.
Issued by Ronnie Mamoepa on 082 990 4853.
Department of Foreign Affairs
Private Bag X152
Pretoria
0001
25 October 2004
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