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Senior UN official to meet Mbeki

    JOHANNESBURG

    Dr K.Y. Amoaka, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will meet President Thabo Mbeki on Friday for talks on a range of regional issues.

    The South African ministry said in a statement that Amoaka, who will be in the country 12-15 August, is accompanied Robert Okello, Director of the Lusaka-based Sub-regional Development Centre for Southern Africa, and other officials.

    The ECA is the regional arm of the UN and its activities are designed so as to encourage sustainable socio-economic development on the continent.

    It is also serves to increase the economic co-operation between Africa and the rest of the world.

    Amoaka is also scheduled to meet with communications minister, Ivy Mtsepe-Cassaburri, and education minister, Kadar Asmal.

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