On Monday, November 6, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will pay an official visit to South Africa, which will be the first visit of the Ukrainian foreign minister to the country since 1998.
According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Kuleba will hold talks in Pretoria with the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, Naledi Pandor, the key topics of which will be the implementation of the Ukrainian peace formula, intensification of efforts to return Ukrainian children illegally taken from the temporarily occupied territories to Russia, ensuring food security in Africa, increasing bilateral trade, and intensifying cooperation between Ukraine and South Africa in international organizations.
The program of the visit includes a lecture by the Ukrainian Foreign Minister to students and professors of the University of Pretoria, as well as the opening of the virtual reality exhibition “Living the War” about the consequences of Russian aggression against Ukraine at the Javett Center for the Arts at the University.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes that the visit to South Africa will be Kuleba’s fourth trip to Africa. The first one took place in October 2022 (Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Kenya), the second in May 2023 (Morocco, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mozambique and Nigeria), and the third in July 2023 (Equatorial Guinea and Liberia).
