Sunyani (B/A), July 9, GNA – Government has been asked to consider the visit of U.S President Barrack Obama to Ghana as an opportunity to open channels of co-operation to establish a new deal in international relations.

Dr. S. A. Manson, a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Dormaa in the Busia and Limann regimes, who made the call, said the visit would renew the old bondage of the African-American symbolic relationship with Ghana.

These were contained in a statement signed by the former MP, made available to GNA in Sunyani on Wednesday.

Dr. Manson said “Ghana and the U.S should work together as brothers to support each other in all endeavours. What is required now is to establish a sound basis of goodwill that can lead to greater achievements. Obama is our own and he should be made to count on us in his desire to succeed”.

He noted that the election of Obama as the first African-American President of the U.S indicated that Americans had removed the stumbling blocks of discrimination, hatred and disharmony spurred by racial consideration.

Dr Manson said: “Now Americans have shown the way of positive race relation and this should be emulated by the rest of the world, especially Africans who are destroying their beautiful continent with inter-ethnic wars and conflicts”.

GNA

Source: GNA - Ghana News Agency