Minizter Dlamini Zuma Concludes Visit to the UN General Assembly Ahead of Visit of Chancellor Angela Merkel

New York – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will today, Tuesday 2 October 2007, conclude her visit to New York, where she led the South African delegation to the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly, ahead of the scheduled working visit to SA of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In this regard, Minister Dlamini Zuma is expected later today to join UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Sonia Gandhi in addressing the First International Day of Non-violence in solemn memory of Mahatma Gandhi.

SA will address this event within the context of its conviction that Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of Satyagraha remains relevant to resolution of current challenges facing humanity today as it was yesterday.

On Monday 01 October, Minister Dlamini Zuma signed the Host Country Agreement for the Regional Service Centre of the UNDP in South Africa and held bilateral discussions with the Indian and Moroccan Foreign Ministers as well as with American civil rights leader Rev. Jessie Jackson.

Minister Dlamini Zuma is later today expected to hold bilateral discussions with Kenya’s Foreign Minister. Minister Dlamini Zuma is expected to return to South Africa on Wednesday 3 October 2007.

Issued by Ronnie Mamoepa at 082-990-4853

SA Permanent Mission to the UN
New York

2 October 2007