G77+China Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/g77china/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 09 Feb 2015 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 G77+China Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/g77china/ 32 32 SA to host AU summit in June https://jjcornish.com/2015/02/sa-host-au-summit-june/ Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/02/sa-host-au-summit-june/ South Africa’s hosting the midyear African Union summit. Foreign Affairs chief Maite Nkoana Mashebane says she’ll name the city next week where leaders of the continental organisation will gather. There’s likely to be another top level meeting in South Africa this year marking its chairmanship of the G77 plus China group – the largest developing […]

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Foreign Affairs chief Maite Nkoana Mashebane says she’ll name the city next week where leaders of the continental organisation will gather.

There’s likely to be another top level meeting in South Africa this year marking its chairmanship of the G77 plus China group – the largest developing world forum in the United Nations.

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South Africa stepped in when Chad announced that security considerations prevent it from hosting the African Union summit in June.

Pretoria has a full diplomatic plate as chairman of the G77 plus China group, chair of the Southern African Development Community’s organ on politics, defence and security and the regional lead in steering Lesotho back to peace and stability after the abortive coup last August.

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