MEDIA STATEMENT ON HEADS OF STATE ARRIVALS

Issued by: South African Government

30 August 2001

UPDATE 2

The following Heads of State/ Government have arrived in Durban ahead of the UN World Conference Against !ay 30 August 2001.

NEW ARRIVALS

HE President Abedelaziz Bouteflika - Algeria
HE Yoweri Museveni- Uganda

ARRIVED TODAY THURSDAY

HE Mr Jozo Krizanovic - Bosnia Herzogovina
HE Chairman Yasser Arafat - Palestine
HE President Paul Kagame - Rwanda
HE President Gnassingbe Eyadema -Togo
Deputy President Dilwob Divungi-d-Ndingue - Gabon
HE Dennis Sassou-Nguesso - Republic of Congo

STILL EXPECTED TO ARRIVE IN DURBAN TODAY

HE Fidel Castro - Cuba HE Joseph Kabila - Democratic Republic of Congo

EXPECTED TO ARRIVE IN DURBAN

HE Dominador Kayser Bazan- Panama
HE Olusegun Obasanjo - Nigeria
HE Dr Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi - Mozambique
HE Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires - Cape Verde
HE Vaira Vike-Freiberga - Latvia
HE Abdoulaye Wade - Senegal
Vice President Kavindele - Zambia

Although this is a ministerial conference, we are honoured to have the following Heads of State.

For further information please call Mr Ronnie Mamoepa 082 990 4853 or Thabang Chiloane 082 7811276

Issued by the South African Government