Secretary General of OAU calls on President

President Kufuor on Monday said now was the time for the realisation of unity among African leaders as envisaged by the Founding Fathers of the Organisation of the African Unity (OAU).

He said the concept of African Union (AU) adopted at the Lusaka Summit last month, should materialise and pledged Ghana's support to the Secretary-General-elect, Essy Amara as he went about his duty of crafting the AU, which was a historic challenge.

President Kufuor was speaking when Amara called on him at his residence, after attending the opening ceremony of the four-day Regional Seminar of the African Centre for Strategic Studies in Accra.

Amara said the task of transforming the OAU into the AU was Herculean because although they have the same objectives they were viewed differently.

He stressed the need for Africans to unite but said the problem was how to concretise the unity after African states had been divided by colonisation.