Visits By High Ranking Leaders To Ghana

The Queen Mathilde of Belgium paid a courtesy call on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Presidency for bilateral talks, during her visit. The President and the Queen also visited University of Ghana for a public lecture which focused on Sustainable Development Goals – A Transformative Agenda for the Future. The issue of Sustainable Development is significant and comes for special mention because two distinguished leaders, President Akufo-Addo and the Prime Minister of Sweden, co-chair a group of 16 eminent personalities tasked by the Secretary General of the United Nations to generate momentum and commitment from the global community for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals Global Agenda 2030. The Queen’s visit is similar to other official visits to the country last year by high-ranking leaders from various parts of the world which included three European leaders, namely, Prime Ministers of Estonia, France and Netherlands. Such visits help to deepen and enhance relationship between Ghana and other countries, providing platforms for open discussion of issues and free ventilation of views on matters affecting them. These visits show that many foreign partners have great confidence in Ghana’s economy and democratic credentials.
The various economic programmes being carried out by government have sent signals to the world that Ghana is determined to succeed. It is in the light of this that programmes initiated by the President of the Republic relating to One District One Factory, Planting for Food and Jobs as well as other initiatives to create jobs for the youth in the country are considered as good efforts to address the socio-economic problems confronting the country. These initiatives ought to be properly monitored to ensure that they achieve the purpose for which they were set up.

This relationship is being promoted within the framework of the country’s policy of Ghana-Beyond-Aid which can be attained through value-added exports and maximisation of mutually beneficial trade relations with other countries. All the visiting leaders have seen the need to encourage Ghana to pursue its agenda of economic transformation, rapid growth, good governance maintaining of peace and security. At the same time, they want to join hands with the country to ensure that matters of mutual interest concerning sustainable development and peaceful co-existence with each other are pursued to their logical conclusions. Apart from the European leaders, many African leaders have also paid visits to the country. Since the world has become a global village, developments in any parts tend to affect other areas. This is why within a framework of globalisation, emerging issues in the country are of concern not only to African leaders but other world leaders as well. Ghana needs to continue collaboration within the context of pursuit a development agenda for mutual benefit with other countries. No country in the world today is an island and this explains why agreeable mutual collaboration is always necessary for sustainable development.

BY: DR. KOFI AMPONSAH-BEDIAKO, DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS, GHANA STANDARDS AUTHORITY.

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