Executive Council meeting
26 June 2006
South African Foreign Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma landed in Banjul
on Monday, 26 June, where she will lead a South African government delegation
to the African Union's Executive Council meeting scheduled for 28 to 29 June in
Gambia.
Minister Dlamini Zuma had on Sunday, 25 June, flown to Guinea Conakry where
she held bilateral political and economic discussions with her counterpart
Minister of State for Foreign Relations, Mamady Conde partly in preparation for
the forthcoming official visit of President Thabo Mbeki to Guinea Conakry
scheduled for 3 to 4 July.
In Guinea Conakry, Minister Dlamini-Zuma will be participating in the
deliberations of the Executive Council within the context of ongoing efforts to
consolidate the African agenda by among others the strengthening of the African
Union's institutions.
In this regard, a number of principal strategic political, economic and
organisational issues will be discussed and recommendations made to the
forthcoming AU Summit of Heads of state and Government, scheduled for 1 to 2
July, to ratify.
Among these issues are reports on:
* Draft African Charter on democracy, elections and governance including a
review of the Lome Declaration on unconstitutional changes of governance in
Africa.
* Information Communication Technology, Youth, electric power, rail and air
transport.
* Establishment of the Pan-African radio and television channel.
* Strategic framework for Migration policy for Africa.
* Rationalisation of Regional Economic Communities.
* African Commission on Human and People's Rights.
* Integration of Africa into Multilateral trade.
* Establishment of an African Commodities Exchange.
* Post-conflict reconstruction and development.
* Preparation for the forthcoming G8 Summit in Moscow.
* And the situation in the Middle East.
Enquiries:
Ronnie Mamoepa
Cell: 082 990 4853
Issued by: Department of Foreign Affairs
26 June 2006
Source: SAPA
