Defence Minister Calls for Peaceful Co-existence in the World 


The Minister for the Defence, Dr. Benjamin Kunbuor has reiterated the need for the World to acknowledge that wars have never been a means of resolving differences.
 
He has therefore called on all to encourage peaceful co-existence as opposed to wars which only escalate conflict and leaves behind serious destruction.
 
Dr. Kunbuor raised these sentiments in a statement in Parliament to commemorate the Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.
 
He said the observance of the event has become a sorrowful reminder of the harrowing effects of armed conflicts.
 
Radio Ghana’s Parliamentary Correspondents Dominic Hlordzi and Augustus Acquaye report that Dr. Kunbuor in his statement on the Centenary of the Genesis of World War One, said the underlining factors of the couple of World Wars witnessed had nothing to do with Africa but the continent was not spared in the catastrophe.
 
With the significant contribution of service men and women from Ghana in the war, the minister seized the opportunity to make a case for all to see the welfare of the few surviving men as a national duty. 

He said one way of doing this is to patronize the sale of poppies, an artificial red flower accepted globally as the symbol for Remembrance Day.

The second Deputy Speaker, Joe Ghartey pushed for the Atta-Mills High street to be reverted to its former name as a lasting memorial to veterans.

The MP for Ablekuma South, Fritz Baffour said the country has been unfair in the care of veterans. He said his colleague MPs should go beyond the purchase of the poppy badge.

This year’s observance is to be climaxed with a grand remembrance day on the eleventh of this month.

GBC