Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is in New York City where he is attending the 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
He attended the meeting of the United Nations secretary's global sustainability panel on Sunday, where he is the co-chairperson, sharing the responsibility with the President of Finland Tarja Halonen, Zuma's office said.
The meeting focused on moving forward the climate change agenda, particularly looking at climate change as a development issue.
While in the US, Zuma will also participate in a number of other key events, including an AU Peace and Security Council meeting on Libya, hosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
He will also partake in the leaders' dialogue on climate change, co-hosted with the President of Mexico; a meeting of the General Assembly to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Durban declaration on the programme of action of the World Conference against Racism that was held in Durban in 2001, and a UN Security Council summit on preventative diplomacy. - BuaNews
