Monrovia -Vice President Joseph N. Boakai has described the idea of forming a Mano River Parliament as an excellent undertaking and emphasized that it is a way of bringing the peoples of Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast closer together. Vice President Boakai said the constitution of such a body and its passage into law will serve as a basis for other instruments to be enacted by the various nations of the sub regional body for the benefit of the MRU. Vice President Boakai was speaking Tuesday when he received the President of the Guinean Parliament, His Excellency Claude Kory Kondiano who is in the Country to discuss the concept of a Mano River Union Parliament, a press release from the Office of the Vice President said. Vice President Boakai who is also President of the Liberian Senate welcomed Honorable Kondiano to his office and praised the long standing cultural, social and diplomatic ties subsisting between the two nations and peoples. Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Ivory Coast have similar cultures and people.

Source: Front Page Africa January 25, 2017 03:41 UTC