Vice President Commiserates with Japan

The Vice President, Mr K. B. Amissah-Arthur, has urged Japan not be discouraged from providing its humanitarian services to the world by the heinous killing of the two Japanese citizens in the Middle East.

Mr Amissah-Arthur made the appeal when he received a group of 56 Japanese volunteers under the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) programme at the Flagstaff House in Accra on Tuesday.

The Vice President deplored the killing of Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto by ISIS militant group when the two were providing humanitarian services to the people of Syria.

“It is very sad for me that Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto who were also helping in the cultural understanding between the Japanese people and the people of Middle East will have to suffer and pay the highest the price any human being will pay’’, he said.

Touched by the fate of the two Japanese, Vice President Amissah-Arthur led the meeting to observe a minute silence for the two.

Recounting the relationship between Ghana and Japan, the Vice President noted that the people of both countries were in touch even before the establishment of formal diplomatic relations. He observed the deep relations between the people of Japan and Ghana over a wide range of issues including financial, cultural and medical fields. He mentioned the establishment of the Noguchi Medical Research center and the enormous financial support Ghana has enjoyed from Japan as fruits of the relationship between the two countries.

Vice President Amissah-Arthur commended the JICA volunteer programme, pointing out that it has provided over a thousand volunteers in the last 38 years. He appealed to the volunteers to use their experience to encourage especially Ghanaian girls to take up the study of science and other areas traditionally dominated by males.

 JAMES AGYENIM-BOATENG

PRESIDENTIAL STAFFER

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