President John Dramani Mahama has rallied his fellow world leaders to support the Accra Reset Initiative.
Speaking at the Accra Reset Addis Reckoning Event at the 39th African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, President Mahama thanked some world leaders who had accepted to be on the Interim Presidential Council of the Accra Rest, leaders who have invested political capital in an idea still evolving, still demanding courage.
The rest are President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Faure Gnassingbé of Togo, President Lula da Silva of Brazil, and Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados.
“Your acceptance to serve on the Council reminds us that leadership is often exercised before certainty arrives,” he said.
“Some have asked what the Accra Reset really means. Some imagine another declaration. Others expect fiery speeches. Accra Reset is an architecture, a framework through which Africa and its partners align finance, health, trade, skills, and technology into a single direction of travel.”
President Mahama said their frustrations had given way to determination, sparking breakthrough thinking that would change the calculus of international relations.
He announced their High Level Panel on Reform of Global Health Architecture, co-chaired by Professor Peter Piot, Honourable Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Chancellor El Hadj As Sy, and Honourable Nisia Trindade Lima.
President Mahama reiterated that reform would be grounded in knowledge of past failures while animated by future promise.
“On Negotiating Power, it is said that sovereignty depends on the people manning the gates. Technical work has begun on our Sovereign Negotiators Certification Programme, cultivating a generation of dealmakers who can navigate technology agreements, minerals contracts, and complex financing with confidence,” he said.
“Our Global Digital Skills Passport will ensure that the qualifications of young Africans are recognised across platforms and countries.”
On Global Partnerships, President Mahama noted that the New Bandung Spirit was gaining expression.
He said exchanges with South Korea, Singapore, India, and Indonesia were opening pathways for technological learning and digital trade.
President Mahama emphasized that all was becoming embedded in their industrial planning and governance systems.
“Excellencies, there is a quiet truth we rarely say aloud. For years, Africa’s leaders have been asked to choose between ambition and realism.”
The President said the Accra Reset rejects that false choice. Ambition becomes realistic when institutions align, partners listen, and execution becomes a shared responsibility.
President Mahama said the Accra Reset Addis Reckoning therefore, was not a conclusion; and that it marked the beginning of a more disciplined phase in which ideas must prove themselves through delivery.
“We must commit to definitive decisions: On deal making, On health as a multiplier of wealth, On critical minerals supply chain intelligence, On the repatriation of African sovereign forex reserves, and On digital skills passports,” the President said.
“We have reflected enough in all our meetings over the years. It is time to commit. It is time to interlock our Sovereign Prosperity Spheres. It is time to transform.”
GNA
