THE GOVERNMENT of President John Agyekum Kufuor has fulfilled one more promise – to streamline relations between Ghana and Australia.
Daily Guide’s scouts have learned that Mr. Kofi Osei-Ameyaw has been commissioned as Honorary Consul-General to Australia.
According to our information the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade at Canberra, capital city of Australia, has confirmed the nomination of Kofi Osei-Ameyaw as the Honorary Consul-General in Australia.
Mr. Kofi Osei-Ameyaw, a legal practitioner, is the first black African to be admitted to the New South Wales Bar in Sydney.
Our diplomatic sources confirmed that the Canberra Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, stated that “it has the honour to refer to the nomination of a head of a consular post in accordance with Article 11 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations”. And, therefore, in accordance with “Article 12 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Mr. Kofi Osei-Ameyaw is, by this Exequatur, admitted to the exercise of his functions as Consul-General for Ghana in Sydney with jurisdiction throughout New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania”.
Source: GhanaWeb
