News:
February 25, 2018
Brazilian Ambassador to Ghana Maria Elisa DeLuna has said her Country is seeking to strengthen Parliamentary relations with Ghana to further boost the good relation between Ghana and Brazil.
According to Mariaenisa Deluna before she assumed her position in Ghana, Senate members in Brazil urged her to foster the relation between the two countries in a way that would allow exchange between the two Parliaments.
This was disclosed when the Brazilian Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Ghana’s Speaker Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye.
She noted that the Educational Committee in Brazil’s Senate would want to see more exchange in the educational sector where more Ghanaian youths would be trained in Brazil.
The Ambassador who is yet to settle in Ghana called for establishment of a focal point person at the Embassy and in Parliament House to put into operation the two association, a proposal which was accepted by the Speaker of Parliament.
Speaker Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye revealed that he has been adviced that there is already an ad-hoc committee in place tasked to established such an association, which has Brazil Parliamentary Association in place all that is needed is to reactivate it.
Professor Oquaye recounted how military interventions has not helped Ghana to have a smooth parliamentary history as in all the intervention the legislature had to be dissolve.
He added that Ghana’s Parliament would be celebrating 25years under the fourth Republican parliamentary democracy.
“Members of the Diplomatic Corps would be invited to this celebration as the President of the Nigerian Senate would be a special visitor”.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com