Ambassador to African Union Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/ambassador-to-african-union/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 02 Jul 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ambassador to African Union Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/ambassador-to-african-union/ 32 32 US chief envoy to South Africa celebrates bilateral commonalities https://jjcornish.com/2019/07/us-chief-envoy-to-south-africa-celebrates-bilateral-commonalities/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/07/us-chief-envoy-to-south-africa-celebrates-bilateral-commonalities/ Washington’s chief envoy to Pretoria says the shared humanity  between South and the United States is more important  than issues that divide the two democracies. Jessica Lapenn was speaking at her last US Independence Day reception as Charge d’Affairs. She is moving on to become the US Ambassador to the African Union in Addis Ababa. […]

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]]> Washington’s chief envoy to Pretoria says the shared humanity  between South and the United States is more important  than issues that divide the two democracies.

Jessica Lapenn was speaking at her last US Independence Day reception as Charge d’Affairs.

She is moving on to become the US Ambassador to the African Union in Addis Ababa.

Jessica Lapenn tells guests at the Fourth of July celebration  of the 243rd birthday of the United States that American firms generate more than ten percent of South Africa’s GDP.

The US has given more than R84 billion to fighting HIV AIDS in South Africa where 10 million more people will be receiving treatment by 2020.

US assistance to arts and culture in South Africa grow annually, she says, because the conditions for democracy and for art are one and the same.  

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