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President Kibaki thanks President Kufuor and Busumuru
Annan
Accra, March 12, Ghanadot/GNA - The Kenyan President, Mwai
Kibaki on Wednesday said he was grateful to President John
Agyekum Kufuor for intervening in his country's
post-election violence and also for initiating the African
Union Mediation under the Former UN Secretary General,
Busumuru Kofi Annan.
A statement signed by Andrew Awuni, Press Secretary to the
President and Presidential Spokesman quoted President Mwai
Kibaki as saying: "I wish to thank you most sincerely for
your timely response in honouring a recent invitation to my
country following the post-election violence in which you
initiated the African Union Mediation under Former UN
Secretary General, (Busumuru) Kofi Annan."
The statement said the mediation process in Kenya had
successfully reached an agreement on the principles of
forming a coalition government that would provide a durable
political settlement in Kenya.
It said that the cordial relationship that existed between
Ghana and Kenya would be further solidified for the benefit
of the peoples of the two countries and also congratulated
President Kufuor and the people Ghana on the occasion of the
country's 51st Anniversary as well the successful hosting of
the 26th African Cup of Nations.
President Kufuor travelled to Kenya at the invitation of
President Kibaki and Raila Odinga, Leader of the opposition
party, to help to find a solution to the post-election
violence that erupted in that country.
During the visit, the President got the two sides in the
impasse to agree to the setting up of a mediation panel of
Eminent African Personalities headed by Busumuru Annan with
Madam Gracia Machel, wife of Former South African President,
Mr Nelson Mandela and Benjamin Mkapa, Former President of
Tanzania as members.
Kenya, East Africa's economic powerhouse was plunged into
political turmoil as protests over Mr Kibaki's re-election
snowballed into nasty ethnic clashes that had killed more
than a thousand and displaced tens of thousands of people.
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