{"id":1244363,"date":"2022-11-05T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/05\/un-secretary-general-receives-black-stars-shirts\/"},"modified":"2022-11-05T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T07:20:24","slug":"un-secretary-general-receives-black-stars-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/05\/un-secretary-general-receives-black-stars-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary-General receives Black Stars shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana has presented a customized Black Stars shirts to the UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres at the UN headquarters on Friday on the sidelines of Security Council meetings where Ghana is President for the month of November.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana plays in Group H with Mr. Guterres\u2019 country, Portugal, on November 24 at the World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-891987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UN-Secretary-General-receives-Black-Stars-shirt-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"832\" height=\"687\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis jersey is a gift from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. I\u2019m sure the value will go up when we win the World Cup,\u201d Ghana\u2019s Permanent Representative at the UN, Harold Agyeman told Mr. Guterres amid laughter.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Secretary-General said, \u201cthe colour of the jersey is just like that of (Portuguese club) Benfica, the team I support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Guterres told his staff to keep the shirt securely in case Ghana did, in fact, win the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He was also presented with a wood and glass-framed shirt in white, autographed by the Black Stars players.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-891985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UN-Secretary-General-receives-Black-Stars-shirt-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1280\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo is due to address the Security Council on November 10.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is using its two-year term on the council, which began in January this year, to bring the world\u2019s attention to the root causes of insecurity in Africa, especially in the Sahel and West Africa, and press for innovations in peace-keeping mandates.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana has presented a customized Black Stars shirts to the UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres at the UN headquarters on Friday on the sidelines of Security Council meetings where Ghana is President for the month of November. Ghana plays in Group H with Mr. Guterres\u2019 country, Portugal, on November 24 at the World Cup in Qatar. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1244365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}