Minister Dlamini Zuma co-chairs South Africa - Russia Inter-sessional Meeting

By Yamkela Xhaso
26 Novermber

South African Foreign Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and the Russian Federation Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, Mr Yuri Trutnev hosted, co-chair the Inter-sessional meeting of the Inter-governmental Committee on Trade and Economic Co-operation (ITEC) in Durban.
The Inter-sessional meeting is a bilateral mechanism aimed at consolidating and strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries. Zuma says she has seen progress by ITEC in last six months.
Zuma added that she was grateful that they got an opportunity to scrutinize the progress and areas of difficulties.

“And try to work around them and to plan ITEC where is it going to the future” said Zuma.

Zuma said they were happy with the work that has been done by the Sub-Committee of Science and Technology, Biotechnology, in space and “we are hoping that in the next mothn we will have a workshop in Cape Town”