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German President arrives for official
visit on Thursday
Accra, Jan. 9, GNA - German President Horst Kohler arrives
in Accra for a four-day official visit to the country on
Thursday, January 11.
To be accompanied by the wife Eva, he would hold bilateral
talks with President John Agyekum Kufuor at the Castle, Osu;
pay a courtesy call on Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, at
his Manhyia Palace and visit the Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology (KNUST) to discuss issues on the
brain drain with the students.
President Kohler would also participate in the second
conference of the "Partnership with Africa" from the January
12 to January 14 at the Kofi Annan International
Peacekeeping Training Centre, Teshie Accra, on the theme:
"Two Generations-One Future."
The conference is a sequel to the first Africa Conference
the German President convened in Bonn in November 2005,
where he launched the Africa Partnership Initiative.
President Kufuor and President Kohler are programmed to
interact with about 50 young leaders from Germany and Africa
at the Conference.
Some other African leaders including President Olusegun
Obasanjo of Nigeria; Liberian President Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf; President Festus Mogae of Bostwana; Mr Alpha Oumar
Konare, President of the African Union and Dr Mohammed Ibn
Chambas, President of the ECOWAS Commission, would also be
attending.
Mr Andrews Awuni, President Kufuor’s Press Secretary, told a
Castle press briefing on Tuesday that issues to be
deliberated on would involve the environment and management
of the natural world; armed conflict and everyday violence;
educational opportunities and employment prospects and
democratic participation.
Bilateral relations between Ghana and Germany have always
been good.
In June 2002 President Kufuor paid a four-day official visit
to Germany. The then German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder,
also made a reciprocal visit to Ghana.
Mr Awuni used the occasion to convey President Kufuor's
gratefulness to the Chief Imam, the entire Muslim community
and Christian Congregations in Ghana, for their prayers for
the country and the Jubilee anniversary.
He appealed to all, who called on the name of God to pray
earnestly and fervently that the Jubilee year would also
mark the country's time of rest from her labour.
GNA
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