Parliament passes foreign affairs budget :: Mmegi Online

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Lieutenant General Mompati Merafhe, is not moved by the recent threat made by Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafhi, that he might cut relations with African States that are opposed to the speedy establishment of a single African Union government.

Merafhe told Parliament yesterday that the January 2008 AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, established a committee of 10 heads of state and government, following deliberations of the AU ministerial committee charged with strategising about establishing a single government for the continent. Botswana is a member.

He said he recently addressed the All Party Caucus on the matter and the majority of member states of the AU are of the view that Africa's economic and political integration should be incremental as envisaged in the Abuja Treaty.

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