Pretoria: South African Home Affairs Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will today, Sunday 20 September, depart South Africa for New York, where she will lead a South African delegation to the Socialist International Conference as well as attend the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly all scheduled for Wednesday, 23 September.
Minister Dlamini Zuma is a Commissioner serving on the Socialist International's Commission on a Sustainable World. In this regard the Commission is expected to deliver a report to the Presidium of the organisation following a meeting of the organisation held in South Africa earlier this year hosted by then President Kgalema Motlanthe and Minister Dlamini Zuma.
The Socialist International Conference in New York is also expected to discuss among other issues of global importance:
* Global warming and climate change: the Socialist democratic platform for a sustainable world society.
* The current global financial and economic crisis.
* As well as the forthcoming G20 summit.
Proceedings are expected to be chaired by the co-chairs of the Commission, Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile and a Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on climate change, and Goran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden.
While in New York, Minister Dlamini Zuma is expected to join the South African Government delegation led by President Jacob Zuma and includes Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane to the current session of the UN General Assembly.
Minister Dlamini Zuma is later in the week expected to proceed to Switzerland where she will lead a South African government delegation to the United Nations Conference to discuss the issue of migration/immigration scheduled for Geneva.
Enquiries:
Ronnie Mamoepa
Cell: 082 990 4853
Issued by: Department of Home Affairs
20 September 2009
