25 September 2006
New York â 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 UNGA. Following the
departure of President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday, 21 September, Minister Dlamini
Zuma assumed the reins of leadership of the South African delegation to the
UNGA.
South Africa is participating 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
* United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Luncheon Panel event on âmaking
globalisation workâ 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 UNGA 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 (UNSC)
and financial institutions.
Contact:
Ronnie Mamoepa
Cell: 082 990 4853
Issued by: Department of Foreign Affairs
25 September 2006
