Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali presenting a copy of The United Nations and , 1948 UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali greets President on his arrival at the –1994 to President Nelson Mandela. To the left is Lakhdar Brahimi, formerly the Secretary-General’s United Nations, New York, 3 October 1994. Special Representative for , New York, 3 October 1994.

32 33 Opposite page: President hosts United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Cape Town, March 2006.

Left: The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan addresses a Joint Sitting of the South African Parliament, Cape Town, 14 March 2006.

Top: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 14 March 2006.

34 35 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma with UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma at the United Nation.

36 37 Meeting between the South African Government and the United Nations led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad and UN Secratary General Kofi Annan.

From left; Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Côte d’Ivoire, Pierre Schori, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, President Thabo Mbeki, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Alpha Oumar Konaré, following a mini summit meeting on Côte d’Ivoire at United Nations Headquarters in New York, 20 September 2006.

38 39 Deputy MInister of Foreign Affairs, Ms Sue van der Merwe celebrating United Nations Day with Resident Co-ordinator of the UN system in South Africa, Ms Scholastica Sylvan Kimaryo. They signed the new United Nations Development Assistance framework (UNDAF), Pretoria, 24 October 2006

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aziz Pahad addresses the United Nations African Meeting in support of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People Cape Town, 29 – 30 June 2004.

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