Source: The Presidency
Title: Mbeki: NAM Business Forum
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, THABO MBEKI, AT THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT'S BUSINESS FORUM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23 February 2003
Your Excellency President Megawati Soekarnoputri,
Your Excellency Prime Minister Bihari Vajpayee,
Your Excellency Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra,
Dr Yeoh, Chairperson of the Organising Committee,
Distinguished Participants,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I would like to thank the Non-Aligned Movement's Business Forum, the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute, the Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Malaysia South-South Association for inviting us to share some thoughts with this important gathering of business and political leaders.
We are particularly happy because through this gathering, whose express intention is the strengthening of business cooperation between the countries of the South, we will be able to build mutually beneficial partnerships that will help us to move forward together on the important question of economic development.
We meet today in this beautiful city of Kuala Lumpur, alongside the XIII Summit Meeting of the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, in pursuit of the fundamental objectives that necessitated the establishment of this important movement. As the distinguished participants are aware, these were first enunciated at the Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955.
We would like to refer to these objectives, once again, given their continuing relevance to all of us as developing countries. On the issue of economic cooperation, the Final Communiqu
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