Akufo-Addo to meet Ivorian envoy over ruling on maritime boundaries
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and President Alhassan Ouattara
of Cote d’Ivoire have agreed to abide by the International Tribunal for
the Law of the Sea’s (ITLOS’s) ruling on the maritime boundary dispute
and work together to ensure the smooth implementation of the court’s
decision.
The Minister of Information, Mr Mustapha Abdul Hamid, said the
President and his Ivorian counterpart had a very fruitful engagement on
the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.
Mr Hamid said this when he addressed the press at the Jubilee Lounge
of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on the President’s return from
the UN General Assembly last Sunday.
He announced that in the coming weeks, the Ivorian President would
send envoys to Ghana and together the two governments would tell the
world what they were going to do in respect of the judgement.
Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire
Mr Hamid said President Akufo-Addo and President Ouattara were of the
view that apart from the maritime boundary dispute that was ruled
largely in favour of Ghana, the two countries had much to do in the area
of leveraging on their potential as world leading producers of cocoa.
Towards that end, Mr Hamid reported that they had agreed that as the
two major controllers of the world cocoa market, “we need to collaborate
more and do things in sync so that we can determine the prices at which
we sell our cocoa to the world.”
Ghanaian story
Throwing more light on the trip, Mr Hamid said the President
addressed the UN General Assembly and told the story of how Ghana was
determined to advance its development and be a truly independent African
nation beyond aid.
“Apart from that,” he said, “the President had a number of important
engagements with various heads of government across the world, including
the British Prime Minister, Madam Theresa May, the US President, Mr
Donald Trump, and other African Heads of State.”
According to Mr Hamid, the President also met with players in the
world’s cocoa industry to sell Ghana’s case to them as far as the
country’s cocoa was concerned.
Source: Garphic online
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