Consolidation of the African Agenda

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Strategic Plan - March 2004

• Consolidation of the African Agenda
• _____________________________
• Objectives
• Establish/strengthen of AU and its organs
• Establish Asia-Africa Forum
• SA participation in SADC
• SA participation in SACU
• Implementation of NEPAD
• Peaceful resolution to conflicts/post-conflict
  reconstruction and development
• Maximise Asian support for NEPAD

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Strategic Plan - March 2004

• Consolidation of the African Agenda
• _____________________________
• Objective Establishment/strengthening of AU and
  its organs
• Critical Issues
• Specialised Technical Committees
• National secondment policy
• SA implementation of decisions of Assembly,
  Executive Council, Peace Security Council
• Launch of Pan-African Parliament
• Launch of African Court on Human and Political
  Rights
• Ratification of Protocol on Court of Justice
• AU financial institutions
• Protocol on relationship between AU and RECs
• Staffing of Commission - 17 posts allocated to SA
• Launch of Peace Security Council
• African Standby Force/Military Staff Committee
  Rules of Procedure of the Council Panel of the
  Wise Early Warning System
• Election of members of Peace Security Council

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Strategic Plan - March 2004

• Consolidation of the African Agenda
• _____________________________
• Critical Issues (cont.)
• Common African Defence and Security Policy
  development of legal instrument based on approved
  policy
• China-Africa process
• Africa-EU process
• Adoption of ECOSOCC Statutes
• Objective SA participation in SADC
• Critical Issues
• Implementation of new SADC organisational
  structure
• Implementation of RISDP
• Implementation of SADC Strategic Indicative Plan
  for the Organ and SADC Mutual Defence Pact
• Alignment of Pact with AU Common African Defence
  and Security Policy
• SADC standby arrangements

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Strategic Plan - March 2004

• Consolidation of the African Agenda
• _____________________________
• Objective Implementation of NEPAD
• Critical Issues
• Capacity building
• Feature NEPAD in national/regional development
  strategies and programmes
• National, continental and international support
  for NEPAD
• Resource mobilisation
• APRM country review process
• Expansion of number of countries acceding to APRM

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Strategic Plan - March 2004

• Consolidation of the African Agenda
• _____________________________
• Objective Peaceful resolution to
  conflicts/post-conflict reconstruction
  development
• Critical Issues
• Military personnel/equipment to UN peace missions
  in Liberia and Ivory Coast
• Elections in the Comoros (April 2004)
• Fomboni Agreement in the Comoros
• Burundi peace process
• DRC peace process
• Involvement in UNSC/AU peacekeeping missions

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Strategic Plan - March 2004

• Africa
• ________
• Strengthen bilateral relations with rest of
  Africa
• SA representation in Africa has increased
  markedly
• Currently we are represented by 34 Missions
• Missions identified as pivotal States based on
  their bilateral and multilateral importance to
  the implementation of SA foreign policy
• Efforts are under way to realise Cabinet Lekgotla
  decisions of 2002 and these represent our focal
  priorities
• Special support for various peace processes,
  efforts to promote peaceful resolu-
• tion of disputes, and post conflict
  reconstruction development on the Continent
• Burundi, Comoros, Côte dIvoire, DRC, Liberia,
  Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Western Sahara, Sao
  Tome and Principe and Equatorial Guinea
• Need to strengthen overall trade with the
  Continent giving attention to
• strengthening of infrastructure
• Strengthen sea and land transport connections
  with Continent

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Strategic Plan - March 2004

• Africa
• ________
• Strengthen continental and regional structures
• African Union and its organs
• AU Commission Pan-African Parliament Peace
  Security Council African courts ECOSOCC
• Facilitate SAs participation in them
• NEPAD
• Implementation of NEPAD sectoral programmes
• Co-ordination of NEPAD in the country
• Preparation for Peer Review (1st quarter of 2005)
• SADC
• Engage in finalising SADC restructuring
• Strengthen governance and capacity in SADC
• Strengthen SAs role as Chair of SADC Organ on
  Security
• Implementation of the RISDP
• Mobilise for rationalising RECs for
  implementation of NEPAD