Former-President Kufuor returns
home
Accra, July 4, GNA - Former President John Agyekum Kufuor
returned home on Friday night
after a 10-day working visit to Geneva, Switzerland and
Washington DC, USA, where he was made member of the
Board of Directors of the Leon
Sullivan Foundation.
The Sullivan Foundation was established to carry on the
missionary work of the late
Reverend Leon Howard Sullivan, civil rights pioneer and
unflagging campaigner against apartheid.
A statement issued by Mr Franck Agyekum, Press Secretary,
Office of the Former President,
said the Foundation's mission was to advocate for the poor
and disadvantaged worldwide – with a special focus on
Africa. The Board is currently
chaired by Ambassador Andrew Young, former US permanent
representative to the United Nations.
It said while in Washington, former President Kufuor
attended the second session of the
High-Level Commission on Modernization of the World Bank,
formed early this year by the Bank.
The 12-member body chaired by former Mexican President,
Ernesto
Zedillo, is tasked with making recommendations on how the
institution is governed so that it
can better fulfill its mission of overcoming global
poverty. The Commission held its first meeting about a month
ago.
The statement said in Geneva, former President Kufuor
addressed the
2009 conference of the Global Humanitarian Forum, founded in
2007 by Dr Kofi Annan, former
Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The Forum is an international humanitarian organization that
fosters
dialogue and brokers partnership to strengthen the
international community’s ability
to address more efficiently, current and emerging.
The theme of this year’s conference was: ‘Human Impact of
Climate
Change’.
GNA
