Andrew Kow Afful
{{Short description|Ghanaian diplomat}}
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| term_start = June 13, 1974
| term_end = November 10, 1978
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Andrew Kow Afful is a former Ghanaian diplomat.
Career
In 1966, Afful served as the first secretary of Ghana's permanent mission to the United Nations and a delegate to the 19th World Health Assembly.{{Cite web |date=16 May 1966 |title=Nineteenth World Health Assembly: List of Delegates |url=https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/137134/WHA19_4_eng.pdf;jsessionid=942B723BF3AECF30B416E0B926E2A11C?sequence=1 |access-date=25 November 2023 |website=who.int |archive-date=25 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125150636/https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/137134/WHA19_4_eng.pdf;jsessionid=942B723BF3AECF30B416E0B926E2A11C?sequence=1 |url-status=live }} On June 13, 1974, Afful was received by Willi Stoph and accredited as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Ghana.{{Cite web |date=14 June 1974 |title=Botschafter Ghanas übergab Beglaubigungsschreiben |url=http://ztcs.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/zefys_contentServer1.php?action=imageFile&path=2532889X%2F2532889X_1974-06-14_01%2F2532889X_1974-06-14_01_002.jpg |url-status= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902230316/http://ztcs.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/zefys_contentServer1.php?action=imageFile&path=2532889X%2F2532889X_1974-06-14_01%2F2532889X_1974-06-14_01_002.jpg |archive-date=2 September 2017 |access-date=25 November 2023 |website=Neues Deutschland}} The farewell conversation with Friedrich Ebert Jr. took place on November 10, 1978.{{Cite web |date=11 November 1978 |title=Ghanaischer Botschafter zu Abschiedsbesuch empfangen |url=http://ztcs.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/zefys_contentServer1.php?action=imageFile&path=2532889X%2F2532889X_1978-11-11_01%2F2532889X_1978-11-11_01_002.jpg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902231449/http://ztcs.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/zefys_contentServer1.php?action=imageFile&path=2532889X%2F2532889X_1978-11-11_01%2F2532889X_1978-11-11_01_002.jpg |archive-date=2 September 2017 |access-date=25 November 2023}} In the summer of 1980, Afful represented the Ghanaian government at the first United Nations seminar on the question of Palestine.{{Cite web |date=July 1980 |title=The First United Nations Seminar on the Question of Palestine. |url=https://unispal.un.org/pdfs/80-1.pdf |access-date=25 November 2023 |website=un.org |archive-date=25 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125150636/https://unispal.un.org/pdfs/80-1.pdf |url-status=live }}
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