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Minister Dlamini Zuma arrives in Gambia ahead of AU Executive
Council Meeting Banjul - South African Foreign Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini
Zuma landed in Banjul on Monday 26 June where she will lead a South African government
delegation to the African Union's Executive Council meeting scheduled for 28-29
June in Gambia. Minister Dlamini Zuma had on Sunday 25 June flown to Guinea
Conakry where she held bilateral political and economic discussions with her counterpart
Minister of State for Foreign Relations, Mamady Conde partly in preparation for
the forthcoming official visit of President Thabo Mbeki to Guinea Conakry scheduled
for 3-4 July. In Gambia, Minister Dlamini Zuma will be participating in
the deliberations of the Executive Council within the context of ongoing efforts
to consolidate the African agenda by among others the strengthening of the African
Union's institutions. In this regard, a number of principal strategic political,
economic and organisational issues will be discussed and recommendations made
to the forthcoming AU Summit of Heads of state and Government, scheduled for 1-2
July, to ratify. Among these issues are reports on: - Draft African
charter on democracy, elections and governance including a review of the Lome
Declaration on unconstitutional changes of governance in Africa
- Establishment
of the Pan-African radio and television channel
- Strategic framework for
Migration policy for Africa
- Rationalisation of Regional Economic Communities
- African
Commission on Human and People's Rights
- Integration of Africa into Multilateral
trade
- Establishment of an African Commodities Exchange
- Post-conflict
reconstruction and development
- Preparation for the forthcoming G8 Summit
in Moscow
- And the situation in the Middle East
Issued by
Ronnie Mamoepa at +27-82-990-4853
C/O South African Mission-Guinea Conakry
26
June 2006
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