Letter from the German Embassy to LIHEDE
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Botschaft |
Monrovia, 24 January 2006 |
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Ref.: WZ 440.00 / V (Please always state in your reply) |
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Dr. Syrulwa Somah |
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Ref.: Your letter from January 20, 2006
Dear Sir,
I am in receipt of your kind letter from January 20, where you outline your project of opening a Center for Youth Empowerment and Athletics in Monrovia.
The German Embassy highly values this initiative that will certainly contribute to the healing of one of the heaviest wounds that 15 years of civil war have inflicted to Liberia.
As you mention in your letter, before the civil war, Germany mantained very intensive relations to Liberia. Let me only mention the Bong Mines Company that employed thousands of Liberians and gave them school and professional training. After all that, unfortunately, had been disrupted by the cicil war, Germany is now doing some effort in contributing to the reconstruction of Liberia. Certainly, at the starting phase, relations cannot be resumed at the same level they used to be at the time when the civil war erupted. The Embassy itself was reopened, at a very small scale, only last September.
For all these reasons I am not in a position, unfortunately, to offer you any concrete assistance to your project by now. I would be glad, however, to stay in contact with your organisation and have some talks with your representatives. Perhaps, a cooperation could be envisaged for a later stage.
Yours faithfully
sgd.
Thomas Freudenhammer
Ambassador