UNU Update: Speech by President Mbeki

	UNU Update
	The newsletter of United Nations University and its network of research and training centres and programmes
		Issue 12: October - November 2001

President Mbeki delivers U Thant
lecture on New Africa Initiative

President Thabo Mbeki

A capacity crowd of more than 500 packed U Thant Hall at UNU Centre, Tokyo, to hear President Thabo Mbeki of the Republic of South Africa deliver the second U Thant Distinguished Lecture.

President Mbeki spoke on the The New Africa Initiative, a strategy to reduce poverty and place Africa on a path of sustainable growth and development. The Initiative calls for a new relationship between Africa and the international community and was discussed at the recent G8 summit in Genoa. Mr. Mbeki outlined his views on how Africa can tackle its enormous economic and social problems and make a contribution to the international community in the twenty-first century.

The U Thant Distinguished Lecture series, co-organized by UNU Centre and UNU Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS), is a forum through which leading thinkers speak on the role of the United Nations in addressing the challenges facing the world in the 21st Century.

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