{"id":273424,"date":"2011-01-11T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T11:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=46149"},"modified":"2011-01-11T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T11:52:20","slug":"majority-of-un-forces-guarding-ouattara-are-ghanaians-dep-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/11\/majority-of-un-forces-guarding-ouattara-are-ghanaians-dep-min\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority Of UN Forces Guarding Ouattara Are Ghanaians &#8211; Dep. Min"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Deputy Minister for Information,  James Agyenim-Boateng, has defended President Mills\u2019 decision not to  commit troops to La Cote d\u2019Ivoire to fight in a \u201cneedless war\u201d because  it will not be in the interest of Ghana. According to him, the  President\u2019s decision was informed by present conditions of the country\u2019s  Armed Forces.<br \/>\nPresident John Evans Atta Mills during an  interaction with journalists at the Osu Castle on Friday, January 7,  indicated that he would not contribute soldiers to address the political  stalemate in Cote D\u2019Ivoire. According to him, sending troops to the  neighbouring West African country to support a war targeted at unseating  the incumbent Ivorian President, Laurent Gbagbo is not his priority.<br \/>\nSpeaking in an interview on <strong>Peace FM\u2019s Kokrokoo<\/strong> Morning show, Mr. Agyenim-Boateng said Ghana will not be able to  contribute soldiers to Ivory Coast because the strength of its soldiers  has been overstretched. He said considering the number of soldiers  already sent out on various missions across the continent, Ghana would  not be able to contribute anymore soldiers to Ivory Coast.<br \/>\nAccording to him, Ghana has already contributed 500 troops in Ivory Coast who are helping in the UN peace keeping operations.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen  ECOWAS leaders met in Nigeria and took the decision to go by way of  military action, Ghana\u2019s position that President Mills said was that,  Ghana cannot contribute troops for that mission in Ivory Coast. In any  case, if you check, we have 500 Ghanaian troops in Ivory Coast already,\u201d  he said.<br \/>\nHe revealed that UN peacekeepers, who are currently  protecting the hotel where Alassane Ouattara is lodging, are Ghanaians  soldiers.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat majority of Ghanaians do not know is that the UN  peacekeepers who are currently guarding the hotel where Alassane  Ouattara is lodging in Abidjan are Ghanaian soldiers so if you look at  Ghanaian soldiers in Lebanon, Congo among others, and on Observer  Missions, the strength of our soldiers is over-stretched so that  informed what the president said, that when he consulted his Military  High command, it became obvious that Ghana cannot contribute troops to  this mission in Ivory Coast,\u201d he noted.<br \/>\nHe said Ghana has been very consistent with its position that we cannot contribute any troops to any country anymore.<br \/>\n\u201cIt  is a very consistent position, not long ago, the American government  made a request on Ghana to contribute troops to Somalia to check the  security situation there and protect them with the condition of  providing all the logistics and equipment but after consultation with  the Military High Command, it became clear that given the fact that our  troops are on missions abroad, our strength is over-stretched, Ghana  cannot contribute any troops; so this is something that is consistent,\u201d  he added.<br \/>\nHe further asked if any country among the 16 member  states that form the ECOWAS who took the decision to resort to military  intervention has contributed any troops yet.<br \/>\n\u201cI think that in all  of this, we should ask ourselves that since we heard that the ECOWAS is  resorting to military intervention till now, how many countries out of  the 16 member states have contributed troops? Everybody was looking in  the direction of Ghana but the case is, with our military resources and  personnel being overstretched, it is obvious we can\u2019t contribute,\u201d he  noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Deputy Minister for Information, James Agyenim-Boateng, has defended President Mills\u2019 decision not to commit troops to La Cote d\u2019Ivoire to fight in a \u201cneedless war\u201d because it will not be in the interest of Ghana. According to him, the President\u2019s decision was informed by present conditions of the country\u2019s Armed Forces. 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