Honourable Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Ghana has been chosen as the brand new Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Apia, Samoa. The Ghanaian Foreign Affairs Minister was one of many three candidates who vied for the place of Secretary General of The Commonwealth.
Honourable Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey was nominated alongside Hon. Dr. Mamadu Tangara, Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Gambia and Hon. Joshua Phoho Setipa, a 55-year-old politician and diplomat from Lesotho. Joshua has served as a senator within the Senate of Lesotho and minister for commerce and trade from 2015-2017. He was additionally managing director of the United Nations Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries from 2018 to 2022.
Below we reproduce the press assertion from the CHOGM in Samoa.
On Friday, twenty fifth October 2024, on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Apia, Samoa, leaders introduced the collection of Honourable Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, presently Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ghana, because the incoming Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.
Notes to Editors
- The Commonwealth is a voluntary affiliation of 56 unbiased and equal sovereign states. Our mixed inhabitants is 2.7 billion, of which greater than 60 per cent is aged 29 or underneath.
- The Commonwealth spans the globe and contains each superior economies and growing nations. Thirty-three of our members are small states, lots of that are island nations.
- The Commonwealth Secretariat helps member nations to construct democratic and inclusive establishments, strengthen governance and promote justice and human rights. Our work helps to develop economies and increase commerce, ship nationwide resilience, empower younger folks, and handle threats comparable to local weather change, debt and inequality.
- Member nations are supported by a community of greater than 80 intergovernmental, civil society, cultural {and professional} organisations.
Source: Culled from CHOGM.
