Zuma off to Saudi Arabia on state go to

This can‚ the Presidency stated on Friday‚ come a day forward of a working go to to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

It famous in a press release that the late former President Nelson Mandela paid the primary state go to there in 1997‚ and Zuma’s predecessor‚ Thabo Mbeki‚ went to Saudi Arabia on a working go to in 2007.

Zuma might be main a excessive-degree delegation‚ which incorporates the minsters of worldwide relations and cooperation‚ state safety‚ commerce and Business‚ residence affairs‚ and police.

The Saudi go to “will function an necessary structural catalyst to strengthen bilateral political and financial relations‚ particularly by strengthening cooperation within the areas of commerce and funding and in help of increasing cultural and other people-to-individuals interplay between the 2 nations”.

The UAE go to follows the Inaugural Session of the Joint Fee between the Republic of South Africa and the United Arab Emirates held in Abu Dhabi” in August final yr.

“This yr‚ South Africa will host the second SA-UAE Joint Fee aimed toward measuring progress in focused sectors of the bilateral relationship and to handle and direct the implementation of mutually agreed upon bilateral programmes‚” the Presidency stated.

It described South Africa and Saudi Arabia as having fun with “cordial bilateral relations”‚ and stated “Saudi Arabia took a number one place within the Arab world in opposing the injustices of the Apartheid system”.

Of the UAE‚ the Presidency stated “South Africa and the UAE take pleasure in a robust bond of friendship and strategic bilateral relations”.

The nations’ relationship is “characterised by the trade of a number of excessive-degree visits‚ a excessive degree of commerce and financial interplay‚ a number of day by day flights between the UAE and three South African cities‚ and a big South African expatriate group within the UAE”.