Republic of Ghana
Ambassador Nana Effah-Apenteng
Ghana began a two-year term as an elected memberof the UN Security Council in January 2006. Ambassador Effah-Apenteng hasserved as Ghana’spermanent representative to the UN since May 2000. The following is excerptedfrom debate during the 5,493rd meeting of the UN Security Council,on July 21, 2006. We are appalled by the violence that is going on andsaddened that the United Nations Security Council has not been able to do theminimum required of it under the United Nations Charter, which is to call foran immediate ceasefire. We totally reject the deliberate and systematicundermining of international law and international humanitarian law, and affirmin…
