United States Ambassador to Ghana, Virginia E. Palmer, has revealed that she is “getting ready to leave Ghana”.
The American Diplomat who is completing her three-year tour of duty in Ghana will soon be replaced, although it remains unclear what her next Assignment at the Department of State will be, given her immense 36-year diplomatic career.
Speaking in an interview on Luv FM in Kumasi, where she revealed the end to her tour of duty, Ambassador Palmer noted: “I am so sad to leave, I have such respect for Ghana. I should talk about that first and the thing I most respect about Ghana is tolerance.
“I have served 40 years in our Foreign Service and more than 20 years in Africa and I have never seen interfaith relations that are as vibrant and as real and is respectful as seen in Ghana and the same is true for inter-ethnic relations and I think both things are a source of stability for Ghana and that’s the bedrock for prosperity”.
The last few days, Ambassador Palmer’s attachment to Ghana-US relations came to the fore when U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to sign executive orders authorising sweeping tariffs on many countries exporting to the American market.
Although many termed the development as fulfilling for the smooth relations between both countries, Ambassador Palmer, on the contrary, intimated that Ghana remains an important ally, despite recent changes in her country’s international trade relations.
“No matter what the change in language, how we express it, or the change in focus, Ghana is a really important partner of the United States and will continue to be so. The United States is behind Ghana’s economic recovery through institutions like the World Bank and the IMF, as well as American business interests. There’s going to be a big trade mission, which I can’t announce yet, but it’s coming,” she stated.
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