The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), in collaboration with the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD), invites all media to a Roundtable Discussion on “South Africa’s second tenure in the UN Security Council: Promoting the African Agenda”, to be addressed by Deputy Minister Marius Fransman of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO).
The discussion forum will take place as follows:
Date: Friday, 3 February 2012
Venue: Kwame Nkrumah Room, 4th Floor, UNISA Building, 263 Skinner Street, Pretoria
Programme:
9h00 to 9h30: Registration
9h30 to 09h45: Welcome remarks by Dr Siphamandla Zondi, Executive Director of IGD
9h45 to 10h00: Opening address by Mr Marius Llewellyn Fransman, Deputy Minister of DIRCO
10h00 to 10h20: Presentation by Mr Aubrey Matshiqi, Helen Suzman Foundation
10h20 to 11h00: Discussants: Dr David Zounmenou, Institute for Security Studies and Prof Anthoni van Nieuwkerk, University of the Witwatersrand
11h00 to 12h00: Open discussion
12h05: Vote of thanks by Mr Francis Kornegay, IGD
Light lunch
Kindly RSVP by Thursday, 2 February 2012 to:
Ms Laoura Lazouras
Tel: 012 351 1256
Cell: 083 564 2024
E-mail: LazourasL@dirco.gov.za
Enquiries:
Nelson Kgwete
Tel: 012 351 1105
Cell: 076 608 8567
E-mail: KgweteN@dirco.gov.za
