President Thabo Mbeki introduces Secretary-General Kofi Annan to ...

President Thabo Mbeki introduces Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Sue van der Merewe, Cape Town, March 2006.
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President TM Mbeki, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Minister DR NC Dlamini Zuma at the World
Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR),
Durban, August 2001.
Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and Mary Robinson at the World Conference Against Racism,
Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR) Durban, 31 August 2001.
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PRESIDENT TM MBEKI
Address at the Opening of the
World Summit for Sustainable
Development, Johannesburg,
26 August 2002.
“We do not have a new agenda
to discover. We have no
obligation to relearn what we
already know about the parlous
state of human society and the
environment. There is no need
for us to reopen battles that
have been fought and resolved.
There is every need for us to
demonstrate to the billions
of people we lead that we are
committed to the vision and
practise of human solidarity,
that we do not accept that
human society should be
constructed on the basis of a
savage principle of the survival
of the fittest.”
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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr NC Dlamini Zuma, Chair of the G77 and China, United Nations, New York,
12 January 2006.
“We are commited to work with our development partners to advance the development agenda and the
eradication of poverty.”
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr NC Dlamini Zuma at the Handing-over ceremony of the G77 and China,
United Nations, New York, 12 January 2006.
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Minister NC Dlamini Zuma and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
“I wish to extend a warm welcome to H.E. Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations and
to congratulate him for his election to lead the Organisation and I wish to assure him of our full support
and cooperation.”
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