On his arrival, Ouattara was received by Naledi Pandor, the minister of the department of international relations and cooperation. He met his counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday morning 22 July at the Union Buildings, the headquarters of the presidency in Pretoria, for an important state visit. The last time an Ivorian head of state paid an official visit to the Southern African country was in 1998 when former president Henri Konan Bédié and his delegation were hosted by former president Nelson Mandela for dinner.
We continue to consolidate bilateral relations and trade links between our two countries since the success of my state visit to Côte d’Ivoire.
It took more than 20 years for an event of this magnitude to be organised again, initially through Ramaphosa’s state visit to Côte d’Ivoire from 1-3 December 2021. The visit was historic, as it was the first one since the establishment
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