![\"VEEP](\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/09\/6be6240x_mg_xveepp20amissahp20p20ap20mrp20gerhard.jpg\")
<\/p>\n\n <\/p><\/div>\n
\n
\n <\/p><\/div>\n
\n
\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Accra, Sept. 26 GNA – Mr Gerhard Brugger, the new Swiss Ambassador has met with Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur in Accra to strength bilateral relations.<\/p>\n
Mr Brugger said Ghana and Switzerland have maintained good and long-standing relations which has been fruitful for both countries.<\/p>\n
He said the focal points of the relations have been the flourishing trade, particularly in cocoa and the Swiss government’s support programme for the country<\/p>\n
Responding, Vice President Amissah-Arthur stated that government has concluded the first part of its discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) team which was in the country recently.<\/p>\n
He said the discussion of the government’s team with the IMF was for technical and financial support to bring confidence to the Ghanaian economy and not a bailout as being speculated in the sections of the society.<\/p>\n
He said later in the year the government’s team would follow up with further discussions with the IMF officials in Washington D.C in the United States.<\/p>\n
Ghana is one of Switzerland’s three most important trade partners in sub-Saharan Africa: in 2011 Switzerland had a volume of trade with Ghana amounting to CHF 136 million with CHF 98 million in imports and CHF 38 million in exports.<\/p>\n
Ghana is, in particular, Switzerland’s most important supplier of cocoa and its second most important supplier of pineapple.<\/p>\n
As a result of the large volume of cocoa imports approximately 90 per cent of all imports, Switzerland has had a trade deficit with Ghana for many years amounting to CHF 91 million in 2010.<\/p>\n
Swiss exports to Ghana consist largely of machinery, in particular equipment for food processing-grain processing, cocoa, chocolate and pharmaceutical products.<\/p>\n
Switzerland is now one of the 20 most important countries of origin for investments in Ghana.<\/p>\n
GNA<\/p>\n
This article has 0<\/b> comment, leave your comment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\t \t<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
VEEP AMISSAH & MR GERHARD Accra, Sept. 26 GNA – Mr Gerhard Brugger, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}