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Foreign Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma to pay Courtesy Call
on Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Khartoum - South African Foreign Minister
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will today, Thursday 19 January 2006, pay a courtesy
call on Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum. Minister Dlamini
Zuma is in Khartoum, Sudan where she will lead the South African delegation to
the African Union Ministerial meeting scheduled from Friday - Saturday, 20-21
January 2006. The Ministerial meeting is charged with the responsibility
of deliberating and making recommendations to the AU Summit of Heads of State
and Government scheduled from Monday - Tuesday, 23-24 January 2006. President
Mbeki and Minister Dlamini Zuma's participation in the AU meetings comes within
the context of South Africa's commitment to strengthen and consolidate the institutions
of the African Union in order to promote the achievement of the African agenda. African
Foreign Ministers will during the Ministerial meeting: - Consider reports
of the:
- 6th Ordinary Session of the Ministerial Conference on the World
Trade Organisation held in Hong Kong in December 2005;
- meetings of African
Ministers of Education, Culture, Health, Science and Technology;
- AU Commission;
- Draft Common African Position on the United Nations Review process on
the Plan of Action on Small and Light Weapons;
- situation in the Middle
East and Palestine;
- African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights;
- Chairperson of the Pan-African Parliament;
- Outcomes of the World
Summit on Information Society held in Tunis in November 2005;
- meeting
of the Troika on the Follow-up of the Africa-Europe Dialogue held in Mali in December
2005;
- Elect members of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights;
and
- Elect a member of the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare
of the Child.
Minister Dlamini Zuma on Wednesday, 18 January 2006,
in her capacity as Chair of the African Union Post Conflict and Reconstruction
Committee on Sudan, led a delegation of the Committee to Juba in Southern Sudan
where discussions were held with the President Salva Kirr, Vice President Riek
Macaar and other senior members of the government and legislature, governors of
the State and members of the Southern Parliament. President Thabo Mbeki
is expected to lead the South African government delegation to the Heads of State
and Government Summit scheduled from Monday - Tuesday, 23-24 January 2006 in Khartoum. Issued
by Ronnie Mamoepa on 082 990 4853 Department of Foreign Affairs
Private
Bag X152
Tshwane
0001 19 January 2006
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