Minister Dlamini Zuma to meet with USA Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

New York - South African Foreign Minister Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will today, Friday 28 September hold bilateral political and economic discussions with her USA counterpart Dr. Condoleezza Rice in New York.

Minister Dlamini Zuma assumed the reigns of leadership of the South African delegation to the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly to discuss the world's response to climate change, Millennium Development Goals, reform of the UN system and counter-terrorism.

The meeting with Dr. Rice is part of a series of bilateral discussions scheduled for Minister Dlamini Zuma with a number of her counterparts on the margins of the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly.

In this regard other planned bilaterals include meetings with:
" British Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, Lord Malloch-Brown
" Zimbabwean Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi
" Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abou El Gheit
" Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin

Minister Dlamini Zuma is further scheduled to attend a number of multilateral meetings in New York on Friday including:
" Commonwealth Ministerial committee on Guyana
" Ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Co-coordinating Bureau
" Commonwealth Foreign Ministers meeting.

Issued by Ronnie Mamoepa at 082-990-4853
C/O South African Permanent Mission to the UN
New York

28 September 2007