ECFA Secretary-General meets with the Deputy Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone at the Institute of Diplomatic Studies

In the framework of the existing cooperation between the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs and the Institute of Diplomatic Studies, Ambassador Hisham El-Zimaity, ECFA Secretary-General, held a meeting at the Institute of Diplomatic Studies on March 22, 2022 with the Deputy Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone, Ms. Mamadi Gobeh Kamara, and her accompanying delegation, at the invitation of Ambassador Walid Haggag, Director of the Institute, in the framework of the assistance provided by the Institute of Diplomatic Studies to the Sierra Leonean side to establish a similar academy in Freetown, and in his capacity as a former Director of the Institute of Diplomatic Studies (2004-2006).

The meeting included an exchange of views, as well as a review of training programs and the process of preparing them in favor of new diplomats or trainees from other government agencies, and how to build their capacities in the field of communication, negotiation, drafting correspondence and other tools of diplomatic work.