By Iddi Yire, GNA
Accra, June 17, GNA – President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of Namibia on Wednesday arrived in Accra for the High-Level Consultative Conference on the Next Steps to the Landmark United Nations Resolution on the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans.
The High-Level Consultative Conference slated from the 17th to the 19th of June, seeks to advance international efforts toward historical recognition, reparatory justice, accountability, and restitution for the enduring consequences of slavery and colonial exploitation.
The Namibia President was welcomed at the Jubilee Lounge of the Accra International Airport by Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, the Deputy Chief of Staff at the Presidency in-charge of Finance and Administration and Ambassador Francis Danti Kotia, the Coordinating Director for Multilateral and International Organisations at the Foreign Ministry and a former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Netherlands.
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is among a number of African leaders expected to address the official opening ceremony that would take place at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City in Accra on Thursday morning.
Among the activities planned include a guided tour of an Art Exhibition on Slavery mounted at the venue, panel discussions on trans-Continental cooperation for the effective implementation of the UN Resolution A/RES/80/250, strategies to advance reparatory justice for Africans and people of African descent and the need for Civil Society organisations and governments to collaborate in advancing Must reparatory justice.
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Edited by Linda Asante Agyei