REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
MONROVIA, LIBERIA
Press
Release
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| L-R( H.E Augustine K. Ngafuan and H.E. Dr. Marie Barnett) |
Minister
Ngafuan, in his effort to pay courtesy calls on all the foreign diplomatic
missions and embassies accredited near Monrovia, met with the Sierra Leonean
Ambassador which was held at the Sierra Leonean Embassy in Congo Town late last
week.
Ambassador Barnett
acts as the Acting Doyen in the absence of the Guinean Ambassador, His
Excellency Alhaji Abdulaye Dore who is the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps here.
Dr. Barnett
described the Liberian Foreign Minister’s initiative as welcoming. She
expressed her joy that the Foreign Minister began his courtesy calls with the
Sierra Leonean Embassy.
Expressing her
satisfaction over the Minister’s beginning of what she termed as a dialogue,
the Sierra Leonean Ambassador added: “That you come to us is like Jesus washing
the feet of the disciples. That you have done that, God will continue to
sustain you in that position”.
The Sierra
Leonean Envoy also recounted the eleven and ten years of peace respectively for
Sierra Leone and Liberia as some of the common identifies between the both
countries.
She used the
Liberian Foreign Minister’s visit to reflect on the common bonds existing
between Liberia and Sierra Leone, including the sharing of nine different
dialects found on both sides of the border, the same cultures and collaborations,
among others including the sharing of the Gola Forest together.
Responding,
Foreign Minister Ngafuan disclosed that it is appropriate that he was meeting
with the Sierra Leonean Ambassador as his first stop as he began his courtesy
visits to the various embassies and foreign missions here.
The Liberian
Foreign Minister expressed joy that he was beginning with the Mano River
Countries to further demonstrate how close the MRU countries are.
“We want to use
this opportunity to get more familiar, although diplomatically you will always come
to me. I just feel that once in a while I should come”, the Foreign Minister
stated.
He also used the
visit to see the new facilities of the Sierra Leonean Embassy for the first
time since a tight schedule prevented him from doing so during the official
dedication of the Embassy last year.
Signed:
Horatio Bobby Willie
Assistant Minister/Public Affairs