BuaNews (Tshwane)
Mantshele Wa Ga Tau
7 March 2002
Pretoria — Deputy President Jacob Zuma is scheduled to participate in the plenary session of Heads of State Presentations at the Third African Development Forum (ADF3), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Mr Zuma a well as transport minister Dullar Omar, finance deputy minister Mandisi Mpahlwa and economic advisor in the Presidency Professor Wiseman Nkulu arrived in the east African country earlier today.
Opening the conference on Sunday, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Africa was faced with regional integration as a challenge both politically and economically.
The ADF is an initiative led by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
It is expected that the continent's marshall-plan called the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the new African Union (AU), predecessor of the Organisation of African Union (OAU), will receive particular attention at the Heads of State meeting.
The AU, which is modeled along the same lines as the European Union (EU), will be launched in South Africa in July.
Mr Zuma's programme in Ethiopia includes bilateral discussions with Prime Minister Zenawi and a meeting with African ambassadors based in Addis Ababa to brief them on a range of political issues and NEPAD.
He will address the plenary session of the ADF before returning home on Friday.
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