Cape Town — Switzerland and South Africa on Thursday held high-level consultations on a number of issues, including how they can co-operate in promoting peace in Africa, with trade between the two countries having risen by 25% in the last five years.
The Deputy Minister of International Relations, Marius Fransman, and Switzerland's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Yves Rossier, agreed that both countries would look at increasing mutual co-operation to support Somalia and the Horn of Africa region, and to encourage the process of reconciliation.
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