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No agreement between US and Ghana - Foreign Minister says

Mrs Botchway said what exists between the Ghana and US was a verbal agreement known in diplomatic as circles note verbale.

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Appearing before Parliament to answer questions on the status of the two -- Muhammed Al-Dhuby and Muhammed Bin-Atef --after the Supreme Court ruled that their stay in Ghana is unconstitutional and that it should be rectified or they should send back to the US.

Mrs Botchway said what exists between the Ghana and US was a verbal agreement known in diplomatic as circles note verbale.

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“Mr. Speaker, we have not changed anything. In the note verbals that were exchanged between the two countries. Indeed there was no agreement. The whole transaction was done through what we call a note verbale from both sides. What we have done is to attach all those documents,” she said.

Meanwhile, she has presented a formal agreement to Parliament to regularise the stay of the two former Gitmo detainees.

According to her, parliament can vote to send them back or let them stay.

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has also asked the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House to deliberate on the agreement between Ghana and the United States to host two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees in Ghana.

The government was recently ordered by the Supreme Court to send to parliament for ratification, the agreement between the two countries that allowed the transfer of the two ex-Gitmos.

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The court in June this year declared as unconstitutional, the agreement which has Ghana hosting the two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees.

It will be recalled that Margaret Banful and Henry Nana Boakye filed a suit against the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, and Minister of Interior on the relocation of Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammed Salih Al-Dhuby in Ghana without seeking parliamentary approval.

The two ex-detainees: Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, arrived in Ghana on Thursday January 7, 2016 for a two-year stay as part of a deal reached between the United States of America and the Government of Ghana.

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