Kufuor in more diplomatic blunders

Top men in diplomatic circles in Accra are surprised at the rate at which President J.A. Kufuor is committing blunders with the Government's official representation at three foreign functions in the name of Ghanaians as a whole ... and all within two weeks in office, writes the Ghana Palaver.

The surprise stems from the degree of importance attached to the functions, in an obviously descending instead of ascending order, in assessing the composition of the delegations. The trips, which have also caused a stir amongst students of politics, are the ones to Togo, Cameroon and the United States.


In the case of Togo the President himself found it expedient to head a delegation to the 34th anniversary of the coup, which brought President Eyadema to power despite President Kufuor's known views against any kind of celebrations, which marked a military take-over in Ghana.

The second was the surprise dispatch of the Vice-President to head a Ghanaian delegation, as observers, at the Francophone- African Summit, which ended in Yaounde, Cameroon, at the weekend. Ghana's unprecedented deep interest in that affair, according to the paper, remains a puzzle.


Sources said it was the composition of the delegation to the inaugural ceremony, marking the assumption of office by George W. Bush as the 43rd President of United States of America, at the weekend, was the most serious blunder of them all.