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Minister Dlamini Zuma to Attend African Union Executive Council
Meeting, Gambia, 25 June 2006 Pretoria - South African Foreign Minister
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will depart South Africa today, Sunday 25 June, on a
seven nation official visit that will see her visiting Gambia, Guinea Conakry,
Niger, Germany, Russia and Cote D'Ivore from 25 June until 22 July 2006. In
Gambia, Minister Dlamini Zuma will lead a South African delegation to the African
Union Executive Council of Foreign Ministers which will lay a basis for the forthcoming
African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government scheduled for 1 and 2 July
in Banjul. The African Union Executive Council and Summit take place against
the background of the scene setting address by AU Commission Chairperson Prof.
Alpha Konare on "Confronting challenges facing Africa" delivered at
Unisa, Pretoria on Saturday 24 June 2006. President Thabo Mbeki and Minister
Dlamini Zuma, on the other hand, will be participating in the AU Summit and Executive
Council meetings within the contexts of ongoing efforts to consolidate the African
Agenda, through amongst others, the strengthening and consolidation of the African
Union institutions. On the Agenda of the African Union Executive Council
is a series of strategic political, economic and organisational issues upon which
the Foreign Ministers are expected to make recommendations to the AU Summit of
Heads of State and Government to ratify. These include, amongst others,
reports on: - The draft African charter on democracy, elections and Governance
including a review of the Lome Declaration on Unconstitutional changes of Governments
in Africa
- Youth, ICT, electric power, rail and air transport
- Strategic
framework for migration policy
- Rationalisation of regional economic communities
- Integration
of Africa in multilateral trade
- Establishment of an African commodities
exchange
- Post-conflict reconstruction and development
- and the
situation in the Middle East.
Issues by Ronnie Mamoepa at 082
990 4853
Department of foreign Affairs
Private Bag X152
Pretoria
0001 25
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