ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell Wednesday stated Grenada might be supporting Ghana’s international affairs minister to turn out to be the subsequent Secretary Common of the Commonwealth when the election is held in October.
The Commonwealth is a voluntary affiliation of 56 unbiased and equal international locations in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific. It’s dwelling to one-third of the world’s inhabitants and contains superior and growing economies.
Earlier this month, Ghana’s Overseas Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, launched a bid to exchange the Dominican-born Dame Patricia Scotland, who served two phrases on the head of the London-based Commonwealth grouping.
Up to now, that is the one contender that has but to emerge for the highest publish forward of the scheduled October 22 election. A Commonwealth Secretary-Common can serve a most of two phrases of 4 years every.
“I might be publicly indicating that we’ve pledged to the President of Ghana that we’ll be supporting the distinguish nomination of the international minister of Ghana to guide the commonwealth when that point arises,” Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell informed a joint sitting of the Decrease and Higher Home after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana addressed the sitting.
He’s formally the primary African president to go to Grenada for the reason that Eighties and is the visitor of honor for the fiftieth Independence celebrations on Wednesday.
The joint sitting of Parliament allowed legislators to “report fervent independence needs to all residents of the State of Grenada.” The sitting was preceded by a navy parade with the Ghanaian head of state inspecting the guards.
In his tackle, President Akufo-Add stated that whereas Grenada and different Caribbean individuals might have began life as enslaved individuals, their contribution to the event of the Western hemisphere can’t be matched.
He pointed to the innovations of Black individuals, corresponding to Voice over Web Protocol (VoIP), shut circuit tv (CCTV), and caller identification on telephones, saying these innovations have turn out to be integral to international growth.
The Ghanaian head of state expressed his appreciation for the excessive normal of hospitality being skilled in Grenada. It used the event to ask Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell to go to Ghana formally.
“I look ahead to returning this hospitality in Accra, and he higher hurry up and are available as a result of I’m within the final yr of my two-term tenure of eight years as Ghana’s president,” he informed legislators.
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