{"id":6086,"date":"2011-12-14T00:14:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/analysis-battered-s-africa-diplomacy-bruised-by-durban\/"},"modified":"2011-12-14T00:14:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:14:47","slug":"analysis-battered-s-africa-diplomacy-bruised-by-durban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/analysis-battered-s-africa-diplomacy-bruised-by-durban\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS-Battered S.Africa diplomacy bruised by Durban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Questions raised after S.African diplomatic gaffes<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Envoys talk of chaos, S.Africa hails achievements<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Durban aftermath could shape global opinion<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Dec 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Envoys at the global<br \/>\nclimate conference ended on Sunday in Durban left late-night<br \/>\nsessions shaking their heads about their South African hosts,<br \/>\nsaying in rather undiplomatic speech they had let the process go<br \/>\noff the rails.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pretoria, however, hailed its diplomacy as a rousing<br \/>\nsuccess, saying South Africa showed it could punch above its<br \/>\nweight in the global arena.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Such is the disconnect between South Africa, which sees<br \/>\nitself as an emerging power championing African causes, and<br \/>\nother nations which question its ability to keep pace with<br \/>\nglobal affairs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The gap is expected to grow larger as Africa&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\neconomy tries to exert more authority on the international stage<br \/>\nby pressing for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council<br \/>\nand having one of its former foreign ministers elected head of<br \/>\nthe African Union.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has already found itself this year on the wrong<br \/>\nside of the mainstream argument over Libya and Ivory Coast.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Questions raised after S.African diplomatic gaffes * Envoys talk of chaos, S.Africa hails achievements * Durban aftermath could shape global opinion By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Dec 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Envoys at the global climate conference ended on Sunday in Durban left late-night sessions shaking their heads about their South African hosts, saying in rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}