Namibia: Foreign Affairs Enters Higher Level

The Minister of Foreign Affairs recently addressed a full staff meeting on the ministry's responsibilities, achievement and challenges. At this meeting, the minister indicated that the ministry is on the threshold of new functionality with the implementation of its Strategic Plan 2014-17.

Addressing the Windhoek staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the minister, Hon. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said "We are in the process of finalizing our Strategic Plan 2014-17. This is the plan that will give us a projection of how the Ministry will look like in the future. As I indicated in my budget speech this year, our objective is to establish a foreign service and to have efficient Foreign Service Officials." Elaborating on immediate and medium term actions, the minister said there are a number of events planned. "In July this year, we are going to have a Heads of Mission Conference that will finalize the various policy documents to achieve what I have just mentioned. For the first time, the Ministry is going to arrange a session with all our Honorary Consuls to devise ways of effective marketing of our country.

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