{"id":2305,"date":"2012-09-29T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T10:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2012-09-29T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T10:33:20","slug":"zuma-more-africa-seats-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2305","title":{"rendered":"Zuma: More Africa seats at UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2306\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/uninvolvedafrica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2306\" title=\"uninvolvedafrica\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/uninvolvedafrica-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/uninvolvedafrica-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/uninvolvedafrica.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UN - involved?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Africa needs to be better represented in the United Nations security council, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;About 70% of the agenda of the UN security council is taken up by issues from the African continent,&#8221; Zuma said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The security council has to be expanded in both categories, with at least two seats for Africa in the permanent category and five in the non-permanent category.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The presidency said on Friday Zuma had returned from New York, where he was attending the 67th session of the UN general assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was accompanied by International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe and Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zuma was appointed to serve in UN secretary general Ban ki Moon&#8217;s Education First initiative, which was launched on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While in the United States the president also attended meetings on the side-lines on the general assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These included meetings on Somalia and the Sahel region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[ad 1]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zuma said: &#8220;The Somali leadership is expected to play a very critical role in developing a vision that will serve to rally Somali stakeholders and international partners in our efforts at post-transition development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Africa was committed to working with Somalia to strengthen relations between the two countries, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zuma encouraged the international community to assist the people and government in the Sahel region in dealing with the challenges of drug trading, terrorism and the deteriorating humanitarian situation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_htmlAccreditationName\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; SAPA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa needs to be better represented in the United Nations security council, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday. &#8220;About 70% of the agenda of the UN security council is taken up by issues from the African continent,&#8221; Zuma said in a statement. &#8220;The security council has to be expanded in both categories, with at least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2305\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zuma: More Africa seats at UN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[854,1415,345],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-africa","tag-un","tag-zuma"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/uninvolvedafrica.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}