Chairperson, hon Deputy Minister, you will agree with me when I say multilateral institutions face serious threats in solving critical global economic and social challenges such as the slowing global economic growth and recurring global economic financial crisis, growing inequalities, and persistent deprivation due to poverty, hunger, conflict, and fragility, especially in the African continent. Now, how does South Africa use our position to ensure that there is a holistic approach towards the promotion of multilateralism, while also advocating for a rigorous approach towards addressing the growing inequalities and persistent deprivation due to poverty, hunger, and conflict?
The DEPUTY MINISTER OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION (Ms K
C Mashego-Dlamini): Chairperson, as country, we participate in these structures and we make sure that our contribution and support to those countries that are facing difficulties, because we want to maintain peace so that economic growth and development should strive in all the countries that are surrounding us, especially the African countries.
As a country as well, we have established a fund called Renaissance Fund. With that fund, we are supporting our sister countries in terms of floods or in terms of any other eventualities that can
happen to them, so that we try to maintain them in their countries so that we try to keep our economy to growth in an equal pace.
When we keep quiet for example when in Zimbabwe when people are facing some threats of the slowing down of their economy - now, people will migrate to South Africa. So, what we are doing is that, we are supporting such countries so that they can start to revitalise.
The decision of the 39th session that the President has attended recently have taken a decision that they need to make sure that they call upon those countries that put sanction in Zimbabwe to uplift that so that it will also benefit all of us in Africa. I thank you.
Question 42:
The DEPUTY MINISTER OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND CO-OPERATION (MS
K C Mashego-Dlamini): Chairperson, our response is yes. Ambassadors and high commissioners are vetted to the level of top secret prior their deployment abroad and on top that we also train them for taking the mission outside the country. I thank you.