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Deputy Foreign Minsiter Aziz Pahad to attend International Ministerial
Working Group Meeting on Côte d'Ivoire Pretoria - South African Deputy
Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad will today, Friday 19 May 2006, attend the 7th session
of the International Ministerial Working Group (IWG) Meeting on Côte d'Ivoire
in Abidjan. Deputy Minister Pahad jetted out of South Africa on Thursday
evening 18 May 2006. The 6th Ministerial level meeting of the IWG was held
on 20 April 2006 during which the report of the Mediation Group was examined and
a briefing received from Prime Minister Banny, the Chairman of the National Programme
for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (PNDDR), the Chairman of the
Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and the acting President of the National
Commission for Supervision of Identification (CNSI). In view of the progress
achieved in the implementation of the roadmap, the Group expressed concern regarding
the delays in the implementation of the disarmament process and national identification.
It is expected that the implementation of the simultaneous disarmament
and national identification processes to be undertaken in terms of United Nations
Security Council Resolution 1633 (2005) will be the main issues on the agenda
of the 7th session of the IWG. Issued by Ronnie Mamoepa on 082 990 4853
Department of Foreign Affairs
Private Bag X152
Tshwane
0001 19
May 2006
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