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AKUFO-ADDO ON TOGO CRISIS, LET’S TREAD SOFTLY
FRIDAY, 11TH FEBRUARY, 2005
Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana’s foreign minister, has said that Ghana’s proximity to Togo makes it necessary to be circumspect when commenting on the situation in that country.
He pointed out that Benin and Burkina Faso, both neighbours of Togo, had, prior to the Wednesday meeting of ECOWAS leaders in Niamey, not commented on the controversial transition in Togo.
The minister made these remarks to the paper yesterday after delivering the opening address at a workshop of ECOWAS peacekeeping operations in Accra.
Commenting on the presence of Ghana’s ambassador to Togo at the controversial swearing-in ceremony of Faure Gnassingbe as the country’s new head of state, Nana Akufo-Addo said the ambassador had been summoned to attend the investiture in his capacity as the dean of the diplomatic corps in Togo.
“There’s no way he could have refused to attend,” he said, adding that the ambassador’s conduct was consistent with diplomatic protocol
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