President Mahama Receives Credentials Of Four New Envoys 

President Mahama has challenged four new envoys to work hard to strengthen relationships between Ghana and their countries, when they presented their credentials to the President at the Flagstaff House in Accra on Tuesday.

They are High Commissioner of Australia Joana Marie Adamson, High Commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago Mr Nyahuma Obika Swedish Ambassador to Ghana Svante Kilander, and Lebanese Ambassador to Ghana Ali Hassan Halabi. 

President Mahama said although Australian companies had mainly been engaged in mining activities, his administration will extend their relations into trade and investment which over the years had been quite insignificant.
He commended the Australian government for pledging to provide million for the troops in Mali to dislodge the Malian rebels who were creating the state of insecurity in the West African state.

Australian High Commission to Ghana, Ms Joana Marie Adamson, who incidentally the only woman gave the assurance that her country will also strengthen relations in the areas of trade, agriculture and the oil and gas in the coming years.

On Lebanon, President Mahama commended them for their massive infrastructural development and hoped the relations between Ghana and Lebanon would grow to greater heights in the coming years.

He said Ghana had over the years contributed to troops to Lebanon peace keeping, while Lebanese too invested in Ghana and gave the assurance that their relations would go beyond that to bring mutual benefits.

President Mahama commended the government of Sweden for their development of Technology particularly in the area of Telecommunications, where the Swedish giants, Erickson had been phenomenal in Ghana.

On Trinidad and Tobago , President Mahama commended them for sharing their experience in oil and gas with Ghana, which had propelled them in the last couple of years to have incident free in the oil exploration.

He said Ghana’s relations with Trinidad and Tobago had given former Presidents Jerry John Rawlings, John Agyekum Kufuor and late President John Evans Atta Mills the opportunity to visit their country to cement their areas of cooperation.


Lebanese Ambassador to Ghana, Ambassador Halabi, announced that his President would be visiting Ghana this week and hoped that relations would be strengthened after the visit.

Swedish Ambassador, Svante Kilander, pledged to strengthen relations and cooperation in telecommunication and engineering.


He said although most of the missions had been in the country since independence, his administration will  step up those relations that would enhance rapid socio-economic development of countries involved.
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President Mahama said although Australian companies had mainly been engaged in mining activities, his administration would extend their relations into trade and investment which over the years had been quite insignificant.

He commended the Australian government for pledging to provide million for the troops in Mali to dislodge the Malian rebels who were creating the state of insecurity in the West African state.

On Lebanon, President Mahama commended them for their massive infrastructural development and hoped the relations between Ghana and Lebanon would grow to greater heights in the coming years.

He said Ghana had over the years contributed to troops to Lebanon peace keeping, while Lebanese too invested in Ghana and gave the assurance that their relations would go beyond that to bring mutual benefits.


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