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President Kufuor named President of
the "Alliance for Africa Foundation
Accra, March 22, Ghanadot/GNA - President John Agyekum
Kufuor, arrived in Accra this evening from France after a
three-day official visit to that country.
A release signed by Mr Andrew Awuni, Press Secretary to the
President and Presidential Spokesperson, said while in
France, President Kufuor was named President of the
"Alliance for Africa Foundation," a new private sector
initiative aimed at mobilizing global support for the
sustainable development of the African continent.
It said the Foundation which was being promoted by the city
of Milan was outdoored on Thursday in Paris at a meeting
attended by African Ambassadors.
The statement said the Foundation’s main priority was
capacity building with special emphasis on vocational
training, health, agriculture and public services at large.
A seed capital of 10 million Euros had been made available
to kick-start the project whose headquarters would be
jointly hosted by Accra and Milan, the release said.
It said in his acceptance speech, President Kufuor said the
concept of the "Alliance for Africa" was consistent with the
New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).
According to the statement, President Kufuor said he had
accepted to lead the Foundation and to work for it because
no effort should be spared to galvanize global support for
Africa's development.
It indicated that President Kufuor said human resource
development was a necessary condition if Africa was to
realize her full potential.
President Kufuor said "we may be sitting on gold, silver or
oil but it will have to take the appropriate human resource
through capacity building to make these natural resources
profitable to us" the release stated.
At the airport to meet President Kufuor, who was accompanied
by some government officials, were ministers of state, the
Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General J.B. Danquah, the
Inspector General of police, Patrick Acheampong, and other
senior millitary and police personnel.
GNA
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