State House, Freetown, Tuesday 29 August 2023 – The South Korean Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Kim Young-Chae, paid a courtesy call on Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister, Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, to discuss and enhance bilateral relations between the two countries.
While welcoming the Ambassador and his entourage, the Chief Minister expressed his delight on behalf of the government and people of Sierra Leone in welcoming them to the country.
Dr. Sengeh emphasized the importance of their meeting to further deliberate on how they could complement each other’s efforts in building and deepening their longstanding bilateral relations.
He assured of the government’s commitment to existing cooperation, emphasizing the political will to maintain an open-door policy for all development and investment partners.
Ambassador Kim also presented a letter of request from the President of the Republic of Korea, His Excellency Yoon Suk Yeol, scheduling a meeting with His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 78), taking place from 18 to 26 September 2023 in New York.
He also took the opportunity to inform the Chief Minister that his government was willing to deepen development cooperation with the West African nation, specifically in the areas of foreign affairs and international cooperation, agriculture, higher and technical education, and private sector investment in Freetown.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the small but resource-rich West African nation and the East Asian nation on 25 June 1962, Korea, possessing one of the world’s largest economies, has consistently been a close friend of Sierra Leone, and vice versa.
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