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Minister Dlamini Zuma Concludes Visit
to France
Paris - South African Foreign Minister, Dr Nkosazana
Dlamini Zuma concluded her visit to France on Saturday
with a bilateral political and economic discussion with
her French counterpart, Michel Barnier.
The bilateral discussions focused mainly on developments
in the EU and an exchange of views on the situation
in the DRC, Ivory Coast and the Sudan as well as the
strengthening of bilateral relations between South Africa
and France.
Minister Dlamini Zuma has been in France where she,
together with French Deputy Foreign Minister Xavier
Darcos, delivered keynote addresses during the opening
session of the South Africa Tenth Anniversary Conference
held at Paris's International Conference Centre. The
Conference opened with an audio-visual message of support
from South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki.
The Conference was attended by, among others, South
Africa's Justice and Constitutional Development Minister,
Bridgette Mabandla; Constitutional Court Judge Albie
Sachs; Adv Denzel Potgieter, former Chairperson of the
TRC's Amnesty Committee; and Cheryl Carolus, CEO of
SA Tourism.
Minister Dlamini Zuma had also paid her respects, laid
a wreath at the plaque honouring the slain former ANC
Chief Representative to France, Dulcie September who
was murdered by apartheid security agents in 1988. In
this regard, Minister Dlamini Zuma visited a school
in Arceull near Paris named after the slain activist.
Minister Dlamini Zuma was also the French Government's
guest of honour at the French ceremony, officiated by
the French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, to commemorate
the 64th Anniversary of General Charles de Gaull's call
to the French people to resist Nazi occupation during
the second World War.
Minister Dlamini Zuma returns to South Africa on Sunday,
20 June 2004 where she is expected during the following
week to host a series of bilateral political discussions
with a number of Foreign Ministers in Pretoria, before
departing for Addis Ababa on Tuesday, 29 June 2004 for
the African Union's Executive Council of Foreign Minister's
meeting which will precede the AU Summit of Heads of
State and Government.
Issued by Ronnie Mamoepa on 082 990 4853.
S A Embassy
Paris, France
19 June 2004
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