Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, has noted that the publication of the letter purported to ‘vindicate’ President Mills\u2019 on his stance not to send Ghanaian soldiers to fight in the Ivory Coast should ECOWAS decide to fight on the side of Alassane Ouattara in the disputed elections in the neighbouring country, is \u201cjust as miscalculating \u2026virtually the same blunder\u201d President Mills committed when he first stated that view on January 7.
\nKweku Baako says the publication of the internal communication for Ghana’s foreign ministry, is going to cause Ghana more diplomatic embarrassment.
\nContents of the letter have found their way into several publications, including the two national newspapers – Daily Graphic and The Ghanaian Times – which all concluded that President Mills had been vindicated. The letter suggested that a number of other diplomatic envoys had expressed a “no military option” view on the Ivory Coast.
\nPresident Mills had been heavily criticised when he first stated the view, with members of the opposition New Patriotic Party accusing him of betraying the cause of the regional and international bodies.
\nMr Baako who was speaking on Peace FM\u2019s morning show, Kokrokoo Wednesday, stated that his elementary knowledge of international relations tells him the \u2018vindication letter\u2019 was an internal communication between the Ghana mission in the United Nations and the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and that it was not meant to be made public.
\n\u201cThis is not a document or a letter or a correspondence that must be put out there for everybody to be reading and making noise with it,\u201d he said, questioning the motive behind its release.
\nThe Editor-in-Chief accused officials in government who released the letter of not exercising any level of finesse in the matter, claiming that \u201c\u2026some people were in a hurry to provide what they see as a vindication\u201d of President Mills\u2019 earlier comments.
\n\u201c…So an otherwise internal diplomatic correspondence has been publicized unduly and in my candid opinion, in an unusual manner, and has become a subject for running debate in Ghana,\u201d Baako noted, asking whether there was an authorization for disclosure of what transpired at the UN meeting.
\nMalik Baako asserted that ECOWAS Military Chiefs of Staff attending a meeting in Abuja have been reported by the BBC as saying that all participating countries have agreed to contribute troops for a military action should the need arise.
\nHe urged commentators to desist from misconstruing the position of ECOWAS in relation to a resort to force because the body has stated that that option would only be used should all other peaceful efforts fail.
\nMalik Baako said it would be desirable to ask what has become of the ongoing peace efforts and who has been intransigent in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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