MONROVIA, April 13, (LINA) -Foreign Minister Augustine K. Ngafuan has extolled the Federal Republic of Germany for keeping its diplomatic mission operational throughout the peak of the Ebola pandemic and by honoring Liberia with visits by high profile officials.

 
According to him, in September 2014 Ambassador George Wilfried Schmidt, Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel visited Liberia while Mr.Walter J. Lindner, German Ebola Coordinator to West Africa came in October 2014.
 
According to a Foreign Ministry release, Minister Ngafuan was speaking at the weekend when a 30-man German delegation visiting Liberia paid a courtesy call on him at the Foreign Ministry in Monrovia.
 
He also recounted some crucial German assistance to Liberia, including the rendering of huge service to the fight against the Ebola virus byGerman military personnel who departed Liberia in March this year.
 
He stressed the cancellation by Germany of over 300 million Euros worth of debt owed it by Liberia which was one of the biggest debt cancellations of a bilateral partner during Liberia’s march to the Completion Point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC).
 
Minister Ngafuan also noted the continued presence in Liberia of about 30 medical staff of the German Red Cross currently providing humanitarian services and would stay in Liberia until the Ebola fight is over.
 
The release said Germany was also the first European country to reopen its embassy near Monrovia with a resident Ambassador after the Liberian civil crisis.
LINA