Mbeki signs anti-terrorism pact

2005-09-15 08:54

President Thabo Mbeki signs the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism at the UN. (John Marshall Mantel, AP)

Johannesburg - President Thabo Mbeki has joined several other world leaders in adding his signature to the United Nations (UN) International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said on Thursday.

Mbeki, accompanied by his wife Zanele, heads the South African delegation in New York to attend the Millennium Review Summit and the 60th Session of the UN general assembly. The delegation includes Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

Mbeki, whose speech to the Millennium Review Summit was postponed on Wednesday, was now expected to deliver his address on Thursday, said Mamoepa.

The president would go on to participate in interactive, round-table talks on progress in attaining the millennium development goals, he said.

Mbeki and Dlamini-Zuma would, later on Thursday, join UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the chairperson of the African Union, Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo, in a meeting on the AU's mediation in Cote d'Ivoire.

Mamoepa said Mbeki was also scheduled to host discussions with his counterpart from the Seychelles on Thursday.

- SAPA