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Sout
h Africa expects election to the United Nations Security
Council non-permanent seat for 2007/08 during its general assembly
in New York this week, said the Department of Foreign
Affairs.
South Africa's candidature for the seat was endorsed by the African
Union summit in Banjul, The Gambia, in July, said foreign affairs
spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa.
President Thabo Mbeki and Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
arrived in New York from Cuba on Sunday evening for the general
assembly on Tuesday and Wednesday. They were in Cuba for the
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit.
“President Mbeki and Minister Dlamini-Zuma are participating
in the United Nations general assembly within the context of South
Africa's conviction that the multi-lateral system of global
governance remains the only hope to challenges like poverty and
under development," said Mamoepa.
He said the government saw the assembly as an opportunity to
consult on UN reform; promote multilateralism and respect for
international law as means of achieving global political and
economic stability, and security; and promote the African agenda
and New Partnership for Africa's Development and the developmental
agenda of the South.
The assembly would also give the international community an
opportunity to review progress implementing the UN reforms as
agreed in 2005.
It would also allow them to bid farewell to UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan, who would complete his tenure at the end of 2006.
Mbeki would address the assembly on Tuesday and attend a summit on
Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday. He had also received a number of
requests for bilateral consultations, including one from European
Union Foreign Policy Adviser Javier Solana, said Mamoepa.
President Mbeki is expected to return to South Africa on
Thursday.
Meanwhile, Dlamini-Zuma, in her capacity as the chairwoman of the
AU's committee of "post-conflict reconstruction of Sudan", will
lead an SA delegation to New York on Monday for the AU peace and
security council meeting.
The situation in Darfur will be reviewed at the meeting. - Sapa
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