Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Throws Weight Behind Diplomatic Games Week

Organizers of The Trade Relations Cup (TTRC), Diplomacy Publishing & Events, have announced the support of Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the ‘Diplomatic Games Week’.

The games coordinator and CEO of Diplomacy Publishing & Events, Sòókò Deji Ajomale-McWord, disclosed this in a statement made available to LEADERSHIP Sports, saying the Ministry declared its support for the recreational engagement planned for the diplomatic community in Nigeria in its response letter to the organisers.

Organized under the theme ‘Negotiating World Peace & Prosperity Through Sports Diplomacy’ — the event which is scheduled for November 8 to 10, 2024, in Abuja, started as Diplomacy Stableford Golf Tournament in 2019, in Ikoyi Club 1938, but was moved to IBB International Golf & Country Club, in the diplomatic beehive city of Abuja in 2022 where it was received with all zest, by the golfing diplomatic community.

In 2024, the organizers decided it was time to up things a bit and make it more inclusive, as not everyone fancies golf. This led to the conceptualization of The Diplomatic Games Week.

According to Sòókò Deji, the activities of the week will now include golf, tennis, chess, esports, soccer and polo, saying entries are open to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and agencies under it, embassies and international organizations with diplomatic mission status.

Registration will be done via www.dpeevents.africa.

“We are super excited and grateful that after half a decade of keeping the diplomatic community engaged recreationally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has thought it worthy to identify with us. This journey started in 2019 because we are in awe of how diplomats are able to help broker and keep the level of peace/sanity and prosperity that our world still enjoys, and DPE — as a firm that uses available tools of diplomacy to advance global peace, prosperity and harmony — thought it necessary to celebrate diplomats and diplomacy. As for venues, we will reveal them in due course”, Sòókò Deji said.