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South Africa is due to meet with N.Korea to discuss the missile launching of that country
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July 04, 2006, 12:15
Aziz Pahad, the deputy foreign minister, will co-chair together with Yasuhisa Shiozaki, his Japanese counterpart, the eighth session of the South Africa-Japan Partnership Forum at the Farm Inn in Pretoria. The forum is scheduled from Thursday to Friday this week.
The forum comes within the context of South Africa's committment to promote North-South co-operation in support of the African agenda through, amongst others, the upcoming G-8 summit in Russia. In this regard, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the deputy president, led a senior government and business delegation on an official visit to Japan in April.
Pahad will lead a senior South African government delegation to the Forum consisting of officials from the departments of trade and industry, arts and culture, science and technology, health, education, agriculture, treasury and sports.
Japan is one of the South Africa's key economic partners in the world and South Africa's largest trading partner in Asia. Exports to Japan have increased since 1992 from R4 billion to approximately R33 billion at the end of 2005, whilst imports from Japan in same period have increased from R5 billion to R24 billion, ensuring a positive trade balance of R10 billion. - Sapa
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