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General News of Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-04-24
The body of the late general must arrive in Ghana on Saturday, April 27th for the funeral
A memorial service was organized in Israel on Wednesday, 24 April 2019 for the late Major-General Francis Vib-Sanziri, Chief of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Force to observe the clearance (UNDOF).
Major-General Vib-Sanziri was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in October 2017 to head the multinational force.
He was General Manager of the National Disaster Management Organization from 2015 to 2017. Major-General Vib-Sanziri, 62, died suddenly on Friday, April 19, 2019 in Eilat, Israel.
The solemn ceremony held at Ziouani camp was honored by Ghana's Ambbadador to Israel, Mrs. Hannah Ama Nyarko, and other ambbadadors from Nigeria, Zambia, Rwanda and Nepal, among other diplomats.
In her remarks, the Ambbadador of Ghana to Israel, representing the President of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, extolled the virtues of the late General, who was very professional and dedicated to his duty. His Excellency President Akuffo Addo said in a message of condolence at his death that Ghana had lost "a dedicated and dedicated professional military officer who had served his country and the international community with distinction.
A 25-member delegation from the 85th Ghanaian Battalion, under the command of the Contingent Commander, Colonel John Lawluvi, and the Commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Fiifi Deegbe, serving in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), took a essential part of the ceremony held in Israel. .
The body of the late General Francis Vib-Sanziri, draped under the UN flag, received the last honors of the last message, followed by two minutes of silence and awakening.
Ghana's Ambbadador to Israel, Her Excellency Hannah Ama Nyarko, also laid a wreath on behalf of the Government and people of Ghana. Other key figures at the ceremony also laid wreaths for the deceased force commander.
Other dignitaries present at the commemorative ceremony include Major-General Cheryl Pearce, Commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), a delegation of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) ), UN military and civilian officials, representatives of the Israel Defense Force and others mourning Israel and Syria.
A similar memorial service will be held on Friday, April 25, 2019 at Camp Faouar in the Syrian Arab Republic. The body of the late general must arrive in Ghana on Saturday, April 27, 2019 for new funeral rites.
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