Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has lauded the increased bilateral cooperation between Ghana and the State of Kuwait.
According to her, the friendship and cooperation between both countries have been reinforced in recent times by the exchange of high-level visits, including her own visit in January 2018, and those of the late former Vice President, Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur.
She made this known when the Ambassador-designate of the State of Kuwait to Ghana, Mohammed Abdallah Al-Khalidi, presented open letters to her in Accra on Tuesday 15, 2019.
Madam Ayorkor Botchwey also acknowledged the cordial and long-standing relations between Ghana and the State of Kuwait since 1993 and expressed gratitude to the Government of the State of Kuwait for its support to Ghana.
The Minister urged the Kuwaiti investors to take advantage of the congenial environment to do business in Ghana as government has taken steps to revamp the country’s economy with its flagship programmes such as One Village One Dam, Planting for Foods and Job and One Industrial Park Projects.
Meanwhile the Ambassador-designate served as diplomatic attaché of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Kuwait (Europe Department) from 1991 to 1994.
From 2008 to 2012, he was advisor at the Embassy of the State of Kuwait to the Republic of Iraq.
In 2012, he was appointed advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Follow-up and Coordination Department, and served in that capacity for a year.
He moved on to serve as Consul-General of the State of Kuwait in Karachi in 2013.
Story By: Henry George Martinson/radiogoldlive.com
