Liberian capital, Monrovia on Sunday, June 4.
Senior Media
and Political Officer of the Embassy of Israel, in a statement in Abuja, Tony
Obiechina said, Netanyahu will be on a one-day visit to Liberia to attend the
summit.
Obiechina
said that during the summit, Netanyahu is expected to sign a joint declaration
for greater cooperation with ECOWAS, the 15-state regional body.
He said that
Netanyahu has spearheaded intense efforts to improve ties with Africa under the
slogan “Israel is coming back to Africa, and Africa is coming back to Israel.”
It will also
be Netanyahu’s first trip outside Israel after hosting President Donald Trump
in Jerusalem.
The trip is
the first for any Israeli leader to West Africa since the late Prime Minister
Golda Meir visited Nigeria in the 1960s.
The Prime
Minister on 2016 toured East African.
Obiechina
said that one of key goals of Netanyahu’s Africa trip is to strengthen economic
ties and boost Israel’s know-how specifically, in the areas of water
technology, agriculture, energy and cyber-security.
Israel’s
relations with Africa go back to the 1950s barely few years after it was
created in 1948.
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