The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a statement that the meeting at the Sun City resort in Rustenburg in the North West would discuss proposed amendments to the Constitutive Act of the AU.
The amendments could not be finalised during the first session of the Executive Council that took place in Tripoli, Libya in December last year, the DFA explained.
The amendments were tabled during the Summit of Heads of State at the launch of the AU held in Durban in July last year, where it was agreed to convene an Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State from 2 to 4 February 2003 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to consider the proposed amendments.
The all-encompassing Act calls amongst others for the establishment of strategic bodies and structures, integration of African projects and the promotion of co-operation between the Union, domestic and foreign stakeholders that would contribute to the development of the African body and its programmes of action.
Countries that have made proposals are South Africa, Libya, Senegal, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Tanzania and Mozambique.
At the Tripoli gathering, Minister Dlamini-Zuma urged foreign affairs ministers present to act in a manner that would strengthen the continental body, rather than paralyse it, as they brought forth their amendment proposals to the Union's Constitutive Act.
'It cannot be that we are here to redraft the Constitutive Act of the African Union nor to disturb the delicate balance struck by the Constitutive Act,' she warned then.
Foreign ministers expected to attend the meeting include those from Algeria, Burundi, Chad, Equatorial-Guinea. Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Libya, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia, and Zambia -BuaNews.
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