Foreign Ministry takes stock

THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday held a strategic planning conference to improve service delivery.

Speaking at the conference, Foreign Affairs Minister Marco Hausiku, emphasised that the Ministry was created to ensure international co-operation. “It is therefore important from the onset that we all understand the Ministry’s mandate to safeguard and promote the national interest regionally and globally in order to advance sustainable and equitable socioeconomic development, international co-operation and peace and security,” he said.”At its establishment in 1990, the Ministry was tasked with the safeguarding and promotion of Namibia’s national interest through inter alia, the pursuit of good and sustainable relations both regionally and globally.The focus of the ministry and ultimately the Government’s policy is the fervent belief in active pursuit of peace, security and inter-state cooperation,” Hausiku said.”It is therefore important from the onset that we all understand the Ministry’s mandate to safeguard and promote the national interest regionally and globally in order to advance sustainable and equitable socioeconomic development, international co-operation and peace and security,” he said.”At its establishment in 1990, the Ministry was tasked with the safeguarding and promotion of Namibia’s national interest through inter alia, the pursuit of good and sustainable relations both regionally and globally.The focus of the ministry and ultimately the Government’s policy is the fervent belief in active pursuit of peace, security and inter-state cooperation,” Hausiku said.