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Minister Dlamini Zuma to hold Bilateral Discussion, in New York New
York - South African Foreign Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will today on
Monday 25 September 2006, on the margins of 61st Session of the United Nations
General Assembly (UNGA), hold a series of bilateral political discussions in New
York. Minister Dlamini Zuma is in New York where she is leading a senior
South African government delegation to the 61st Session of the United Nations
General Assembly (UNGA). Following the departure of President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday
21 September, Minister Dlamini Zuma assumed the reigns of leadership of the South
African delegation to the UNGA. South Africa is participation the in 61st
session of the UNGA within its conviction that the multilateral system of global
governance remains the only hope for challenges facing humanity today including
the need to push the frontiers of poverty and under development. Minister
Dlamini Zuma will hold bilateral discussion on the margins of UNGA 61st with the
view to consolidating the African Agenda through among others, strengthening and
consolidating bilateral relations with countries of the world. Accordingly
Minister Dlamini Zuma will hold bilateral discussions with: - The Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mr Abdullah Gul;
- The
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Western Sahara, Mr Salem Ould-Salek;
- The
Foreign Affairs Minister of Greece, Ms Dora Bakoyannis;
- The Foreign Affairs
Minister of the Somali Republic, Ismael Mael Mohmoud Hurreh;
- The Foreign
Minister of Syria, Walid Al-Moualem;
- UNDP Luncheon Panel event on "Making
Globalisation Work" by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz;
- The Foreign Affairs Minister of Indonesian, Hassan Wirajuda;
- The
Foreign Affairs Minister of East Timor, Dr Jose Ramos Horta;
- The Foreign
Affairs Minister of Ireland, Mr Dermot Ahern;
- The President of the UN
General Assembly Madame Sheikha Haya Rashed Ial Khalifa, Bahrain.
Issues
on the agenda of these bilateral discussions are expected to include, among others:
- Bilateral political relations;
- The Comprehensive reform of
the UN including the UN Security Council and financial institutions
Issued
by Ronnie Mamoepa at 082 990 4853 Department of Foreign Affairs
Private
Bag X152
Pretoria
0001 25 September 2006
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