Amarteifio is FICAC Vice
President
Accra, Nov. 27, GNA - Mr Amarkai Amarteifio, The
Consul General of Sweden and the Dean of the
Honorary Consular Corps of Ghana, has been elected
Vice- President of the World Federation Consular
Corps (FICAC) at the eighth congress of the
Organization, in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
A statement signed by Mrs Amorkor Stanley-Owusu, a
Consular Officer at the Office of the Consulate
General of Sweden in Ghana, on Monday, said Mr
Amarteifio was jointly nominated by Ghana and
Finland and elected by acclamation.
It said Mr Amarteifio, who is the first African to
fill that position was elected to the Executive
Board of FICAC in 2000 and appointed the Chairman of
the Organization’s Legal Committee in 2003.
The statement said Mr Arnold Foote, the Dean of the
Jamaican Consular Corps, was elected the new
President of FICAC, following his predecessor Mr
Roland Dahlman of Sweden.
Mrs Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica
congratulated Mr Foote and Mr Amarteifio as well as
the other executive board members.
She urged the World Federation of Consular Corps to
be people oriented in their outlook so as to
contribute to the reduction of poverty and the
promotion of peace and justice in the world.
"While you balance the books, please balance the
people too" she said.
Nine other Consuls were elected to the Executive
Board. The next congress would be held in Brazil in
2009.
GNA
