strategic partnership --- Botswana like other countries, has what we call Joint Permanent Commissions on Cooperation, JPCCs with all most all her neighbours, established to monitor bilateral cooperation commitments, chaired at the level of Ministers , however, lately some of the JPCCs have been elevated to what is now called a Bi-national Cooperation (BNC), in order to enhance bilateral cooperation to a strategic partnership. The BNC discusses a wide range of issues from political, economic, social, justice to defence and is chaired at the level of Head of State. some of the countries that we have a BNC with are South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe

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