President John Mahama has left France for Japan to attend the 5th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD).
A number of other African leaders including Ethiopian Prime, Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and the President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Campoare have also arrived for the Conference.
President Mahama is expected to hold bilateral talks with the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinz? Abe, later today.
The meeting will focus on Ghana-Japan relations and a review of Japan’s support for Ghana’s development programmes through JICA.
The conference will officially open tomorrow, and is bringing together a number of African leaders as Japan promotes dialogue and mobilises support for Africa’s development initiatives.
Launched in 1993, TICAD has evolved into a major global framework for the facilitation of initiatives promoting African development under the “dual principle of African ownership and international partnership”.
While in Japan, President Mahama will meet with all former Japanese diplomats who served in Ghana, the President of JICA and host a number of business executives with interest in the Ghanaian economy.
First Lady Lordina Mahama will also participate in a symposium on HIV & AIDS, hold meetings on maternal mortality and join the wife of the Japanese Prime Minister for a working lunch.
Accompanying the President are the Minister for Finance Seth Terkper, Foreign Minister, Hanna S. Tetteh, Deputy Information Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu and the Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission Dr Angela El-Adas.
Source: ISD
