Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey (MP), has accepted an invitation from her counterpart, H.E. Sergey Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, for a working visit to Russia on 20 August, 2019.
The visit is within the framework
mechanism of bilateral consultations between the Foreign Ministries of Ghana
and Russia with the aim of enhancing Ghana – Russia relations in critical
sectors of mutual interest.
On arrival in Moscow on Monday August 19, 2019, in a lead up to the much
anticipated meeting, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey expressed the hope that interactions
would go a long way to set the tone for an expected meeting between His
Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Russian President Vladimir
Putin on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Summit in October 2019.
As part of the official visit, the Hon. Foreign Minister will also meet the
Ghanaian community at the Ghana Embassy in Moscow later on Monday, ahead of
Tuesday’s bilateral meeting.Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey was met on arrival at
the Sheremetyovo Airport, Moscow by Ghana’s Ambassador to the Russian
Federation H.E. Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware.
Ambassador Lesley Opoku Ware was
accompanied by some Ambassadors from the African continent, serving in Moscow.
They included the Gambia, Burkina Faso, Benin and Uganda. The rest were Cote
D’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, D.R. Congo and Rwanda.
The Ghanaian Foreign Minister is expected back home on Wednesday August 21,
2019.
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.
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