Naledi Pandor
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 70 |
Date of birth | December 7,1953 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | Durban |
South Africa | |
Spouse | Sharif Joseph Pandor |
Children | Haroon Pandor |
Aisha Pandor | |
Fazlur Pandor | |
Siblings | Zolani Mathews |
Parents | Joe Matthews |
Regina Thelma Philips | |
Official site | parliament.gov.za |
Position | Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa since 2019 |
Education | University of Pretoria |
Harvard Kennedy School | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 737007 |
Naledi Pandor Life story
Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor is a South African politician, educator and academic serving as the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation since 2019. She has served as a Member of Parliament for the African National Congress since 1994. Born in Durban, Pandor completed high school in Botswana.
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... " South Africa s foreign ministry has gone even further, suggesting that the Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, which the Hamas-run health ministry says has killed more than 10,000 people, In the statement announcing the withdrawal of its diplomats, Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor accused the Israelis of imposing " collective punishment" on Palestinian civilians - an allegation rejected by Israel...
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... South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said the group s vision was to provide global leadership in a world fractured by geopolitical tension, inequality and global insecurity...
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Brics ministers call for rebalancing of global order away from West
By Oliver SlowBBC News
A meeting of foreign ministers of the Brics group of nations in South Africa has called for a rebalancing of the global order away from Western nations.
South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said The Group 's vision was to provide global leadership in a world fractured by geopolitical tension, inequality and Global Insecurity .
Brics is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa .
Allegations of Russian War Crimes in Ukraine have clouded The Talks .
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an over the allegations and, as a member of The Court , South Africa would be obliged to arrest him if he attends a Brics summit scheduled for Johannesburg in August.
The Brics is seen by some as an alternative to the G7 group of developed nations, which held last month, and was also attended by the leaders of Brazil and India. G7 members have been highly critical of Russia and China.
Brics countries have a combined population of More Than 3. 2 billion people, Making Up about 40% of The World 's roughly 8 billion people.
On The First of Two Days of talks in Cape Town , Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said The Gathering must " send out a strong message that The World is multipolar, that it is rebalancing and that Old Ways cannot address new situations".
" At The Heart of the problems we face is economic concentration that leaves too many nations at The Mercy of too few, " He Said .
Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira described the Brics as an " indispensable mechanism for building a multipolar World Order that reflects the devices and needs of developing countries".
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu said the Brics group could be expanded to provide assistance to developing countries and emerging market economies.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said " More Than a dozen" countries including Saudi Arabia had expressed interest in joining The Group .
His presence at The Event was met with protests, with demonstrators holding a picture of Mr Lavrov with The Words " child murderer".
One protester told AFP news agency it was difficult to see South African officials " shaking The Hand of a person who is part of these systemic War Crimes against Ukrainian children" a reference to the ICC case against Mr Putin.
South Africa 's governing African National Congress (ANC) that go back to The Years of white-minority rule before 1994, and the country has refused to criticise Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Earlier This Week , the country planned to change its laws so that it had The Power to decide whether or not to arrest a leader wanted by the ICC.
At a news conference, Dr Pandor was asked by BBC correspondent Andrew Harding whether Mr Putin would be arrested if he came to The Summit in August.
" The President [Cyril Ramaphosa ] will indicate what The Final position in South Africa is, " she replied.
A senior official privately described The Situation as a diplomatic nightmare from which The South African government was desperate to escape, And One option said to be under consideration is moving The Summit to Another Country .
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com