{"id":48397,"date":"2012-10-04T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=48397"},"modified":"2012-10-04T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T20:24:08","slug":"sierra-leone-ambassador-to-china-calls-for-concerted-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=48397","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Ambassador to China calls for concerted efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leone\u2019s Ambassador to the People\u2019s Republic of China, with accreditation to several other countries in South East Asia and Pacific Region like Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and Vietnam among others, His Excellency, Ambassador Abubakarr Multi-Kamara has called on the workforce at the Mission to put concerted efforts and be supportive of each other especially in making the work of the Mission a success.\u00a0 <em>(Photo: Ambassador Multi-Kamara and the new officers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He spoke on Thursday, 4<sup>th<\/sup> October 2012, whilst welcoming the First and Second Secretaries of the Mission, Mustapha Ansumanah and Augusta Akibo-Jones, respectively. The event was also a platform to mark China\u2019s Anniversary, which is currently being observed with a week long holiday and festivals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his brief but inspiring statement, Ambassador Abubakarr Multi-Kamara, spoke that it was a \u201cmodest way of recognizing the national day of China\u201d and for which he will \u201clike to congratulate them\u201d and further spoke that he will continue working towards strengthening the long standing cooperation ties between the two countries. Whilst welcoming the two new officers at the embassy, the Ambassador underscored the point that as Head of Mission, he will give them the needed support in executing their work and\u00a0\u00a0 also called on them to provide him with all the support he needs. \u201cI am committed to building and strengthening the team to ensure that we achieve our country\u2019s overall objective\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding, both the First and Second Secretaries expressed how honored they were, that the Ambassador and his wife could organize such a welcome ceremony for them and in return, also promised to give their utmost support and commitment\u00a0 to the work of the Embassy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Second Secretary, Augusta Akibo-Betts Jones in her remarks stated of how she was \u201cparticularly honored to be welcomed by the Ambassador\u2026\u201d saying the presence of several Chinese nationals at the welcome ceremony, marks the importance of the Sino-Sierra Leone relations. \u201cYour presence here at this event, as our Chinese friends, demonstrates the level of friendship that exists between Sierra Leone and China. She also extended her appreciation to the Sierra Leone Community for their attendance, saying, \u201cI want to assure you that we are here to work not just for the Foreign Ministry but to also work for Sierra Leoneans.\u201d She promised to give her best \u201cin fulfilling the agenda of His Excellency the President \u201cand in also ensuring the success of the Ambassador, saying, and \u201c\u2026your success is our success\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The First Secretary, Mustapha Ansumanah in his remarks also expressed his thanks and appreciation to the Ambassador and his wife for hosting such a welcoming event for them. \u201cLeadership counts and when a team is supportive, then there is bound to be a success and our presence here demonstrates that\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48401\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Guests_at_the_ceremony.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48401\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48401\" title=\"Guests_at_the_ceremony\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Guests_at_the_ceremony.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests at the ceremony<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event attracted a cross section of the Sierra Leonean Community, Chinese nationals and friends from within the diplomatic community.\u00a0 Also in attendance was the Head of Chancery of the Mission, Paul AS Minah.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone\u2019s Ambassador to the People\u2019s Republic of China, with accreditation to several other countries in South East Asia and Pacific Region like Japan, New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,1],"tags":[12266],"class_list":["post-48397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-uncategorized","tag-ambassador-abubakarr-multi-kamara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}