Issued by: Department of International Relations and Cooperation
The South African government has noted
with regret the unilateral announcement by the government of the
United Kingdom regarding the termination of the Official Development
Aid to South Africa as from the year 2015.
This is such a major decision with far
reaching implications on the projects that are currently running and
it is tantamount to redefining our relationship.
Ordinarily, the UK government should
have informed the government of South Africa through official
diplomatic channels of their intentions and allowed for proper
consultations to take place, and the modalities of the announcement
agreed on.
We have a SA/UK Bilateral Forum which
is scheduled for some time this year and the review of the SA/UK
strategy which includes the ODA, would take place there and decisions
about how to move forward were expected to be discussed in that
forum.
This unilateral announcement no doubt
will affect how our bilateral relations going forward will be
conducted.
We are however looking forward to the
SA/UK bilateral forum later this year to clear up this matter among
others.
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