By Emmanuel Asante Attakora, GNA
Accra, Mar 10. GNA - Nesrin Bayazit, Turkish Ambassador to Ghana, has paid a courtesy call on Mr. Isaac Kwame Asiamah, Minister of Youth and Sports, to discuss ways to develop sports in Ghana.
The visit afforded the Ambassador to familiarize with the new government, as Turkey and Ghana signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), last year under the previous government, which was going to see Ghana benefit from sports development and human resource.
According to Bayazit, it was very important to meet the new minister since the partnership agreement, was signed under a different government last year, when the Turkish President visited Ghana on a two-day official visit.
“The call on you here today is to introduce myself and also to brief you on the current situation of youth and sports between Turkey and Ghana.
“Last year in March, our President came to Ghana and we signed an agreement in the field of youth and sports.
“I would like you as the new sports minister to also study the agreement, so we make a ratification of the agreement” she added.
Mr. Asiamah on his part thanked madam Bayazit for following up on the agreement and promised to see to the endorsement of the agreement.
“I would like to thank you for this visit…and I hope it would go a long way to deepen the existing relationship between both countries.
“Ghana has benefitted from Turkey in so many ways and this agreement to help in sports development would go a long way to help our country.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Mr. Asiamah expressed his joy with the partnership, which would touch on the very thing he has set out to do.
“I am glad the agreement would include youth empowerment, which is one of the areas am very critical about.
“The youth lack training in so many disciplines and with this coming with the setting up of training programs and centers, would go a long way to help Ghana.
“The agreement would impact positively on the youth and I promise to make sure we see to this agreement for the benefit of the whole nation” he noted.
The agreement would see Ghana benefitting from projects that would be dubbed “training trainers” aimed at youth empowerment, building of multi-purpose sporting center and training in many of the sporting disciplines in the country.
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