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October 28, 2024
Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Committee on Political Affairs, Peace, Security and African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe Jr. has congratulated her former colleague at the Parliament for her election as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.
“Congratulatory message to my friend, Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, current Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana on her election by the Commonwealth Heads of Government as Secretary General of the Commonwealth”.
He said, “Shirley and I initially met at the ECOWAS Parliament in 2015 and became professional colleagues. Our bond quickly developed around ethical professional standards, and we eventually regarded each other as brother and sister”.
Shirley, he said, soon became the Republic of Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, while I was appointed Chair of the ECOWAS Parliament’s Political Affairs, Peace, Security, and APRM Committee.
“I wasn’t surprised by her elevation because I knew her to be shrewd and intentional about her goals”, he said on his Facebook post.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com