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President John Dramani Mahama will travel to New York and Pennsylvania on Monday to lead Ghana’s delegation to a United Nations special session on reparatory justice. He is set to table a landmark resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity.
In a statement signed by Presidential Spokesperson and Minister for Government Communications Felix Kwakye Ofosu, it was announced that President Mahama will convene and deliver the keynote address at a High-Level Special Event on Reparatory Justice at the United Nations Headquarters on Tuesday.
The event, titled “Reparatory Justice for the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans,” aims to address a historic injustice that has been largely unrecognized by global governance for too long. World leaders and high-level dignitaries will come together to discuss this critical issue.
On Wednesday, President Mahama will also address the UN General Assembly during the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. He will present Ghana’s position, which has been adopted by the African Union, calling for the trafficking and enslavement of Africans to be formally declared as the gravest crime against humanity.
The trip will begin with a wreath-laying ceremony at the African Burial Grounds Memorial in New York on Tuesday, honoring the memory of enslaved Africans. President Mahama will also deliver a keynote address at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and engage with the Ghanaian community at Temple University during the visit.
Story:Efua Nessa
Source:Loco tv