Ghana, UK make progress on IELTS exemption negotiations - Ablakwa

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TEE LASH 1 day ago

Our hard working foreign minister, just continue with the hard work. Don't allow yourself to be distracted by the loud rantings of yaanom!!!!!

Our hard working foreign minister, just continue with the hard work. Don't allow yourself to be distracted by the loud rantings of yaanom!!!!!
TEE LASH 1 day ago

Our hard working foreign minister, just continue with the hard work. Don't allow yourself to be distracted by the loud rantings of yaanom!!!!!

Our hard working foreign minister, just continue with the hard work. Don't allow yourself to be distracted by the loud rantings of yaanom!!!!!
Jimi X 1 day ago

This is huge!Thank you Mr Ghana Foreign Minister(Ablakwa)for the efforts.

This is huge!Thank you Mr Ghana Foreign Minister(Ablakwa)for the efforts.
Great one 23 hours ago

Meaningless agreements, when time comes to give something in return then people will begin to scream HOW?

Meaningless agreements, when time comes to give something in return then people will begin to scream HOW?
IS THIS WAHT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY HAS BEEN REDUCED TO! 23 hours ago

This should be the responsibility of a small Dept at the Ministry of Education responsible for the verification of Ghanaian Certificates for students and related professionals who need to prove equivalence in the host country ...
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This should be the responsibility of a small Dept at the Ministry of Education responsible for the verification of Ghanaian Certificates for students and related professionals who need to prove equivalence in the host country.

These are technical issues far far below the level of a Foreign Minister to deal with.

It looks like the Ghana Foreign Ministry has lost its focus and direction if this is what is what makes news at the Foreign Ministry!
Jimi X 22 hours ago

Hmm. Since when does foreign relations being run by a small department? That is not how it works.

Hmm. Since when does foreign relations being run by a small department? That is not how it works.
Kanewu 22 hours ago

Oh NPPfour. You bring politics in everything. Its not even funny anymore.This not implementation part where you need the technocrats . This is a Foreign minister negotiating with a foreign country for a deal. You expect a sma ...
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Oh NPPfour. You bring politics in everything. Its not even funny anymore.This not implementation part where you need the technocrats . This is a Foreign minister negotiating with a foreign country for a deal. You expect a small department at Education Ministry to negotiate with a foreign Government for such a deal? OMG!!!!
Not His Job! 21 hours ago

The Foreign Ministry does not negotiate on Educational Certificate waiver. This is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education and in some cases where it involves Trade in Services, Ministry of Trade, or the Ghana Standar ...
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The Foreign Ministry does not negotiate on Educational Certificate waiver. This is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education and in some cases where it involves Trade in Services, Ministry of Trade, or the Ghana Standards Board!

What about discussing with Mr. Milliband about Reforms in the UN System and the need for an African Country to be represented on as a Permanent member of the UN Security Council or to discuss with Milliband on the forthcoming Chairmanship of Ghana of the African Union and the importance of collaboration with the UK to deal with cdeal with challenges on the continent including Illegal Migration, Climate Change and Poverty.

These are the issues that will make countries like UK situp and take you nore seriously as someone who knows what he is doing instead of discussing about English test waiver. A topic that us dealt at the lower technical ranks of the Ministry of Education.
Kanewu 21 hours ago

Hah ha ha ha!. By your logic, you expect someone at a small department at the ministry of education to meet the UK Foreign Secretary Edward Miliband to negotiate on behalf of Ghana? You can't be serious!This is not how Intern ...
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Hah ha ha ha!. By your logic, you expect someone at a small department at the ministry of education to meet the UK Foreign Secretary Edward Miliband to negotiate on behalf of Ghana? You can't be serious!This is not how International relations works.
Not His Job! 19 hours ago

These are not the themes that a Foreign Minister should spend the cocoa farmers taxpayers money to cross international borders to talk about.

The British as a Courtesy will listen to him and give him his Photo Opportunity. ...
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These are not the themes that a Foreign Minister should spend the cocoa farmers taxpayers money to cross international borders to talk about.

The British as a Courtesy will listen to him and give him his Photo Opportunity.

The moment Ablakwa leaves the Office thinking he has negotiated something Miliband will handover that file to his Under-Secretary for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in charge of the British Council UK who will then pass it on to their Office in Accra to deal with.

David Milliband is focused on more serious life and death issues. Dealing with Trump, EU, Ukraine, China, Chagos Islabds, Falklands, Gibraltar, Iran. He does not have time to be talking thoughtless negotiating waivers for English language certificates.

Out of courtesy, diplomacy abd respect he will give our Minister the audience. But the moment that meeting ends. That is the last time he will have nothing to do with that file. The file is likely to end up at the British Council Offices in Accra who sill follow it up with counterparts at the Ministry of Education.

Kanewu 16 hours ago

You’re quite a character! :) I’m enjoying this. It’s like discussing the layers of Earth’s atmosphere with someone who insists the Earth is flat-confident, yet clueless.

You speak as though you know exactly what th ...
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You’re quite a character! :) I’m enjoying this. It’s like discussing the layers of Earth’s atmosphere with someone who insists the Earth is flat-confident, yet clueless.

You speak as though you know exactly what the British Foreign Secretary thought and what he would do the moment Ablakwa left his office. Yet you can’t even get his name right: it’s Edward Miliband, not David Miliband.
Not His Job! 16 hours ago

LOL! You think the UK Foreign Secretary sits there negotiating certificates of equivalence? Be serious.

The man has slightly bigger things on his desk — Trump, Russia, the EU, Ukraine, China, Chagos, the Falklands, Gibra ...
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LOL! You think the UK Foreign Secretary sits there negotiating certificates of equivalence? Be serious.

The man has slightly bigger things on his desk — Trump, Russia, the EU, Ukraine, China, Chagos, the Falklands, Gibraltar, Iran, nuclear proliferation, chemical weapons, terrorism... you know, actual life and death stuff.

The second Ablakwa leaves the room, he's not going to call Scott McDonald. He's going to buzz his Private Secretary and say "please pass this down to the relevant desk in the FCDO that sponsors the British Council."

You know, the office down Whitehall you just discovered exists.

And since you are now officially the Resident Name Checker of the Foreign Office, do be a darling and confirm for us the name of the British Council CEO. Shouldn't take you another 2 hours like your David / Edward Miliband masterclass did.

LoL!
Kanewu 15 hours ago

You seem to know everything about the Foreign secretary. You act like you work in his office but you don't even know who the current Foreign Secretary is. Why will I waste my time on novice like you?

You seem to know everything about the Foreign secretary. You act like you work in his office but you don't even know who the current Foreign Secretary is. Why will I waste my time on novice like you?
Not His Job! 11 hours ago

Stick to the agenda and stop deflecting. I enjoy reading you wasting your time reading on my comments. Happy time wasting on this one as well!

Stick to the agenda and stop deflecting. I enjoy reading you wasting your time reading on my comments. Happy time wasting on this one as well!
Kanewu 1 hour ago

You act like you work in the Foreign Secretary office and yet you don't even know who the current Foreign Secretary is. Waste of space.

You act like you work in the Foreign Secretary office and yet you don't even know who the current Foreign Secretary is. Waste of space.
YEN 21 hours ago

If Ghana was educating our young one's as we once did then our dear Minister does not have to go around begging for other countries to lower their standards for shameless Ghana. YEN

If Ghana was educating our young one's as we once did then our dear Minister does not have to go around begging for other countries to lower their standards for shameless Ghana. YEN
Kakpayili Doo 21 hours ago

My future president!

My future president!
mafak 19 hours ago

Good one there

Good one there
Charles 17 hours ago

Too many ministers we have are try and error. That is what happens when civil servants are moved from entry level to ministerial position. Ghana

Too many ministers we have are try and error. That is what happens when civil servants are moved from entry level to ministerial position. Ghana

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