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German President Expected Today |
1/11/2007 |
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Accra, Jan. 11, GHP - The President of Germany, Mr Horst Kohler, and his wife, Mrs Eva Luise Kohler, arrive in Accra, today, for an official visit to the country. Mr Kohler is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with President J.A. Kufuor at the Castle, Osu, and also pay a courtesy call on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu ll, at the Manhyia Palace.
He is also expected to visit the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), where he will discuss the issue of brain drain with students of the university.
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.
Kufuor and 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.
In June 2002 President Kufuor paid a four-day official visit to Germany (see picture). The then German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, also made a reciprocal visit to Ghana.
Source: GHP
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