Kaure set for US Republican Party Convention

THE President of the opposition DTA, Katuutire Kaura, will attend the Republican National Convention in New York from August 29 to September 3.

The Convention is expected to nominate US President George W Bush as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate. Americans go to the polls in November.Kaura will attend the gathering at the invitation of the International Democrat Union (IDU), which will also bear the costs of the trip.”The DTA of Namibia is an executive member of the IDU an organisation to which the Republican Party is an affiliate, together with many other like-minded democratic parties around the globe,” DTA Secretary General McHenry Venaani told a media conference in Windhoek yesterday.IDU members include the ruling party of France and Britain’s Conservative party.While in the US, Kaura is expected to address a gathering of US congressmen and senators on the state of democracy and development in southern Africa.He will also address the business community in New York on ‘Africa’s Economic Future – Namibia’s Role in Promoting Development’.According to Venaani, the DTA leader would also use the opportunity to meet with the party’s USA Abroad Branch “to brief them about developments back home”.”He shall also be expected to hold talks with some key leaders of the Republican Party and to strengthen party to party relations between our two parties,” Venaani said.Americans go to the polls in November.Kaura will attend the gathering at the invitation of the International Democrat Union (IDU), which will also bear the costs of the trip.”The DTA of Namibia is an executive member of the IDU an organisation to which the Republican Party is an affiliate, together with many other like-minded democratic parties around the globe,” DTA Secretary General McHenry Venaani told a media conference in Windhoek yesterday.IDU members include the ruling party of France and Britain’s Conservative party.While in the US, Kaura is expected to address a gathering of US congressmen and senators on the state of democracy and development in southern Africa.He will also address the business community in New York on ‘Africa’s Economic Future – Namibia’s Role in Promoting Development’.According to Venaani, the DTA leader would also use the opportunity to meet with the party’s USA Abroad Branch “to brief them about developments back home”.”He shall also be expected to hold talks with some key leaders of the Republican Party and to strengthen party to party relations between our two parties,” Venaani said.