Wednesday 31st July, 2019
By Christopher Arko, GNA
Accra, July 31, GNA – Mrs Nancy Patricia
Pelosi, Speaker of the United State House of Representative, has called for the
deepening of security ties between Ghana and the United States for the mutual
benefit of their people.
She said the ties between the two nations
dates back six decades ago and have endured because of their common history,
adding that their security would be well-served if they built closer cooperation.
“Today, on behalf of the Congress of the
United States, I am deeply honoured to address you and to reaffirm that proud
partnership,” the Speaker told the Parliament of Ghana, in Accra, as part of a
four-day state visit to Ghana.
Speaker Pelosi is leading a sixteen member
congressional black delegation to Ghana, and the delegation has already held
high level discussions with the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, members
of the Executive and captains of industries.
Mrs Pelosi recalled the visits of three of
the most recent American Presidents to Ghana- Presidents Bill Clinton, George
W. Bush and Barack Obama- while in office, and said it was a sign of the
importance of the U.S – Ghana relations.
Mrs Pelosi also observed that her delegation
was deeply moved to be in Ghana since this year marks 400 years of the arrival
of the first African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619.
She said the President’s “Year of return”
campaign has turned the memory of the horrors of the slave trade into a
spiritual homecoming for many African-American, and described as humbling by
what they saw this week at the Elmina and Cape Coast Castle as they stood
before the “Door of no return” where countless millions of slaves caught their
last glimpse of Africa before being shipped to a life of enslavement.
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