During the visit, Fransman will hold a bilateral meeting with the UN development programme regional director for Africa, where issues of the status of the proposed strategic partnership between the UNDP and South Africa will be discussed.

Fransman will also attend and deliver a statement at the opening of the annual session of the Executive Board of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, which South Africa is a member of.

He is also scheduled to visit the New York Stock Exchange to meet with South African companies listed at the New York Securities Exchange in preparation of the Stock Exchanges Conference to be held in South Africa later in the year.