Minister Dlamini Zuma puts on hold the Listing of Two South Africans by the UNSC

Pretoria - South African Foreign Minister, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma today, Wednesday 24 January 2007 directed the SA Permanent Mission in New York to place on hold the names of the two South Africans whose names have been submitted to the UNSC by the US authorities for alleged links to Al Qaeda.

Minister Dlamini Zuma is of the conviction that the matter needs to be discussed further in bilaterals with the US authorities.

The US government had on Friday 19 January 2007 submitted the names of the two South Africans to the 1267 Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee of the UN.

In terms of procedure the Chairperson of the 1267 Sanctions Committee on receipt of the names distributes the list to all 15 members of the Sanctions Committee. Following this distribution of the names, countries are given 5-days in which to indicate whether they intend objecting to the listing or not.

It is in this context that Minister Dlamini Zuma, having applied her mind to the matter, directed the South African Permanent Mission at the UN to place on hold the listing of the names of the two South Africans on the UNSC list.

The implication of putting on hold the names of the two South Africans is that the names cannot be included in the consolidated UNSC list but will be added to the list of holds.

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24 January 2007