South African Institute of International Affairs cordially invites you to a Speaker's Meeting to be addressed by HE Mr Jan F Mutton, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium on BELGIUM'S PRIORITIES DURING ITS PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

On 1 July 2010, Belgium takes over the EU Presidency from Spain. Its presidency will be marked by the holding of the third EU-SA summit in Brussels, and the third EU-Africa summit in Libya.

Born in 1950, Ambassador Jan Mutton studied Law in Belgium and in Canada. He joined the Belgian Foreign Service in 1978 and did his traineeship at the Belgian Embassy in Bonn and at the Permanent Representation to the UN in New York. From 1980 to 1984 Mr Mutton served as attaché in Pretoria. From there he moved to Tehran and became in 1986 Consul-General in Shanghai. In October 1990 he joined the Embassy in Bonn, out of which he opened a new Belgian mission in Riga in 1991. He spent 1993 and 1994 as Minister Counsellor in Kinshasa before joining, in the same capacity, the Belgian Embassy in Moscow. Mr Mutton was accredited as Ambassador to Burundi from 1997 to 2002. He subsequently served as Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region out of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brussels before being reappointed, as Ambassador now, to the Republic of South Africa in September 2006.

Date: Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Time: 10h00 for 10h30, to conclude by 11h30

Venue: Villa Sterne, 212 Johann Rissik Drive, Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria

RSVP: Ndumi Nqunqa

Tel: (011) 339 2021

Fax: (011) 339 2154

Email: Nondumiso.Nqunqa@wits.ac.za

SAIIA's EU Africa project is sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung