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Zuma Leads Delegation To G8 Summit, Jokes About Gaddafi
6 July 2009
President Jacob Zuma will lead a South African delegation to the G8 Summit in Italy, the Department of International Relations said on Monday. The G8's Africa Outreach session would also be attended by the other countries which initiated the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal and Libya, which is chair of the African Union, said department spokesperson Nomfanelo Kota in a statement. Delegations would also be sent by Ethiopia, which chairs Nepad's heads of state and government implementation committee, the AU Commission and Angola. Matters on the agenda include the effect of the global financial and economic crisis on Africa, climate change, the strengthening of north-south relations, implementation of previous commitments agreed to by the G8 and the development agenda.
Kota said there would also probably be talks about strengthening peace and security in Africa, piracy, trafficking of drugs and arms, illegal fishing and money laundering. Zuma and International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane would return to South Africa on Friday.
Zuma jokes about Gaddafi
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had his own ways of conducting meetings, SA President Jacob Zuma said jokingly in Durban on Saturday. "He has his own ways of holding meetings." said Zuma jokingly at a two-day ANC provincial general council at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Westville Campus. Describing how the African Union (AU) chairman conducted the conference in his country this week, Zuma said "[A] quarter of the speeches during the meeting was done by him. "He forgets that there is lunch time and he forgets that people have to sleep." Zuma and other South African delegates arrived in South Africa from Libya at 7am on Saturday.
During the AU meeting, there were reports that some delegates were complaining that Gaddafi was bulldozing his vision of forming a United States of Africa. - Sapa
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