PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba will visit Washington D.C.next week to meet US President George W Bush.
The American Embassy in Windhoek confirmed yesterday that President Pohamba and the presidents of Botswana, Ghana, Mozambique and Niger would hold a joint meeting with Bush at the White House on Monday. Joyce Barr, US Ambassador to Namibia, met Pohamba yesterday at State House to finalise the details of the trip.Barr is reported as saying that HIV-AIDS, economic development and free trade agreements were among the wide range of issues to be discussed in the meeting.The visit to Washington was confirmed on the same day that President Pohamba revealed plans for a trip to Berlin to meet the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Horst Kohler.In a meeting with the German Ambassador to Namibia, Wolfgang Massing, Pohamba said Kohler had invited him.He did not specify a date, but State House sources said he would include Germany in a trip to Europe to save on expenses.Meanwhile, reports emanating from the United States say that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has indicated that she will make her first trip to Africa before September.Rice has given no hint as to which countries in Africa she might visit.Joyce Barr, US Ambassador to Namibia, met Pohamba yesterday at State House to finalise the details of the trip.Barr is reported as saying that HIV-AIDS, economic development and free trade agreements were among the wide range of issues to be discussed in the meeting.The visit to Washington was confirmed on the same day that President Pohamba revealed plans for a trip to Berlin to meet the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Horst Kohler.In a meeting with the German Ambassador to Namibia, Wolfgang Massing, Pohamba said Kohler had invited him. He did not specify a date, but State House sources said he would include Germany in a trip to Europe to save on expenses.Meanwhile, reports emanating from the United States say that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has indicated that she will make her first trip to Africa before September.Rice has given no hint as to which countries in Africa she might visit.
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