{"id":691315,"date":"2019-08-25T15:47:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong> President Akufo-Addo <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Saturday, August 24, for Japan, to attend the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), at the invitation of the Japanese Prime M"},"modified":"2019-08-25T15:47:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:47:23","slug":"akufo-addo-off-to-japan-for-ticad-confab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/25\/akufo-addo-off-to-japan-for-ticad-confab\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo Off To Japan For TICAD Confab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong> President Akufo-Addo <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Saturday, August 24, for Japan, to attend the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), at the invitation of the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinz\u014d Abe. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The objective of the conference is \u201cto promote high-level policy dialogue between African leaders and development partners.\u201d Japan is a co-host of the conference, with the co-organizers being the United Nations Office of the Special Advisor on Africa (UN-OSSA), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).<\/p>\n<p>Whilst in Japan, President Akufo-Addo will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Abe, and also with the President of Mauritius, and will also hold meetings with some CEOs of important Japanese companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The President will address the plenary session of TICAD on the theme \u201cAccelerating Economic Transformation and Improving Business Environment Through Innovation and Private Sector Engagement\u201d; deliver the keynote speech at the 2019 Symposium of the Junior Chamber International; and deliver a statement at the Third Replenishment of GAVI, \u201ca public\u2013private global health partnership committed to increasing access to immunisation in poor countries\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was accompanied by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, MP; Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen; Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng; and officials from the Presidency and Foreign Ministry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The President will return to Ghana on Sunday, September 1,\u00a0and in his absence, the Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, shall, in accordance with Article 60(8) of the Constitution, act in his stead.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo President Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Saturday, August 24, for Japan, to attend the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), at the invitation of the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinz\u014d Abe. \u00a0 The objective of the conference is \u201cto promote high-level policy dialogue between African leaders and development partners.\u201d Japan is a co-host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":691316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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