- May 2022
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Titlte: Need for more innovation in South African diplomacy
South African diplomacy need to be more innovative in order to adjust to the post-pademic era. It was the underlying message of President Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa during the Annual conference of heads of missions of the Department of International Relations and Cooperations.
As a practical step towards more innovative diplomacy, President Ramaphosa said 'We need to adapt to digital diplomacy and host targeted seminars to sell South Africa.'.
The Annual Conference of South African diplomacy stressed three priority areas for innovation in diplomacy:
to attract tourism, trade, and investment by using innovative tools and approaches.
to strengthen people-to-people relations towards cultivating tolerance, and cultural understanding. The main focus should be on youth development programmes.
to strengthen public diplomacy via the use of social media and other advanced tools and approaches.
Source: City Press
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- Sep 2021
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For this reason, the COVID-19 vaccine must be recognized as a good for all humanity, with universal and open access to allow for wider production and equitable distribution on a global scale
Call for vaccines to be treated as a public good (not exact words)
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Call for vaccines to be a global public good
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