The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, on Tuesday, sixth September 2022, held a gathering in The Hague, along with her Dutch counterpart, H.E. Mr. Wopke Hoekstra within the margins of the Africa Adaptation Summit, which was held in Rotterdam on Monday, fifth September 2022. The discussions centered on the will by each international locations to strengthen the long-standing cordial relations, based on a mutual dedication to work carefully collectively in lots of areas of frequent curiosity.
Hon. Ayorkor Botchwey recalled that Ghana and The Netherlands had, through the years, bolstered their collaboration in a variety of bilateral and multilateral sectors bordering on commerce, funding, agriculture, peace, and safety, amongst others. The two Ministers, subsequently, agreed to observe up on Political Consultations held in Accra earlier this yr to additional improve partnerships and share finest practices within the varied sectors. Additionally, the Ministers agreed to take steps to allow Ghana to extend commerce volumes via the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Ghana’s Minister subsequently took the chance to ask Dutch traders to discover the beneficial funding atmosphere to put money into Ghana.
Ghana’s Foreign Minister additionally briefed her Dutch counterpart on the financial agenda of the federal government which relies on the transformation of the construction of the economic system to carry out past help and scale back dependence on imports to grow to be an exporter of semi-processed and manufactured commodities with the non-public sector on the middle of the coverage. She added that, the method of industrialisation resulting in the institution of factories and industries, which Ghana is at the moment endeavor, would, in the end, present job alternatives, significantly, for the Ghanaian youth.
Hon. Ayorkor Botchwey acknowledged the Dutch Government’s spectacular experience in agriculture and processing of agricultural produce. She recalled when she accompanied President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on tour to the World Horti Center, which is the information and innovation middle for worldwide greenhouse horticulture, in addition to the Cargill Cocoa Processing Plant (the place Ghana’s Cocoa is primarily used), to examine the services. She indicated that collaboration with such firms would add impetus to Government’s drive to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youth and stop them from embarking on perilous journeys to Europe.
Hon. Ayorkor Botchwey famous, with gratitude, the assorted types of collaboration with the Netherlands via private-partner sector devices such because the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF), the Development-Related Infrastructure Investment Vehicle (DRIVE), the Netherlands Senior Experts Programme (PUM), Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), new financing and enterprise fashions which have been launched to encourage higher participation by the Dutch and Ghanaian non-public sector and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) within the financial improvement of the nation.
At the multilateral degree, the Ministers known as for cooperation to make sure decisive motion find lasting options to the brand new threats to international peace and safety, together with the insecurity within the Sahel and the Gulf of Guinea, terrorism and violent extremism, local weather change and its attendant affect on the atmosphere and livelihoods. They had been hopeful that cooperation on the multilateral degree, contemplating Ghana’s membership of the United Nations Security Council, would result in discovering a long-lasting answer to the Russian-Ukrainian battle and its attendant challenges such because the rising price of meals, gas, and vitality.
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