MONROVIA, April 13 (LINA) -German Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Dr. Gerd Muller, has told President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf that Liberia must not fall into depression now or after the Ebola crisis.
Dr. Muller noted that this is why “we need to make considerable investment
in infrastructure and in the agricultural sector.”
“Why we have taken the decision to double our support in the coming years,” he emphasized that “private investment is paramount to the development of any nation.”
He disclosed that the German government will lobby with private sector actors in Germany to attract private investments to Liberia.
A Foreign Ministry release said the German Economic Minister and delegation, which also included two members of the German Parliament, met and held talks with President Sirleaf at the weekend.
Dr. Muller, who led a 30-member German delegation to Liberia, made the commitment during a press stakeout jointly held with the Liberian Foreign Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan over the weekend at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Capitol Hill.
According to him, as a result of the excellent relationship subsisting between President Sirleaf and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, two important development issues have been included on the agenda of the forthcoming Group of Seven (G7) Summit.
Minister Muller named the two important issues as creating a fair value chain aimed at producing fair standard of production in developing countries and empowering women through technical vocational education.
The Muller-led delegation, which was co-led by the German Minister of Health, Mr. Hermann Groehe, was in the country primarily to assess the impact of German contributions to Liberia’s fight against Ebola and to discuss the possibilities for the strengthening German-Liberian financial and technical cooperation.
LINA