NICOLE FRITZ: SA’s foreign policy needs reboot after Ukraine misstep
Had SA endorsed the Ukraine peace initiative it would retain far stronger powers of moral suasion
With all eyes focused on momentous events at home, perhaps understandably SA’s role on the international stage has escaped real scrutiny of late. It shouldn’t.
As the government of national unity’s (GNU’s) statement of intent came into effect, committing the new government, among other priorities, to a “foreign policy based on human rights, constitutionalism, the national interest, solidarity, peaceful resolution of conflicts, to achieve the African Agenda 2063, South-South, North-South and African co-operation, multilateralism and a just, peaceful and equitable world”, a high-level summit on peace for Ukraine was convening in Switzerland...
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