Ghana’s Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey participates at G-7 Foreign Ministers meeting
By: Edward Nyarko
Ghana’s Foreign Minister, Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey participated in the G-7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in the German Northern City of Munster to discuss issues concerning geopolitical, climate change, energy, food security and terrorism.
In a communique, the G-7 Foreign Ministers urged Russia to heed the call of the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres for the extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI), which aims at reducing global food prices. They condemned the
shelling of energy and water infrastructure adding it not only violates the rights of civilians in Ukraine but also it is fueling the most severe global food and energy crises in recent history.
They, therefore, condemned Russia’s attempts to leverage energy and food exports as a tool of geopolitical coercion.
ACCRA INITIATIVE
Addressing the G-7 meeting, Ghana’s Foreign Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey said terrorism anywhere in the world is a threat to global stability, peace and security. She appealed to the G-7 to support the Accra Initiative which aims at addressing transnational organised crime and violent extremism in member countries’ border areas through intelligence gathering and sharing.
And on the sidelines of the G-7 meeting, she had bilateral meetings with her counterparts from Germany, Annalena Baerbock, UK, James Cleverly, US, Anthony Blinken, Canada, Melanie Joly and Japan, Yashimasa Hayashi.
