PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO LEAVES ACCRA TODAY FOR LIBERIA AND MALI TOUR

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will leave Ghana Today, Friday, May 26, 2017 to Monrovia, Liberia for a two-day working tour of that country, and then proceed to Mali on Sunday, May 28, for a day's visit.

The President has already toured the three countries bordering Ghana- Togo, Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire- in a wider move to introduce himself to and deepen relations with countries in the ECOWAS region.

The tour will further the President’s quest to strengthen bilateral ties and to restate Ghana’s commitment to the ECOWAS project.  

He has also paid working visits to The Gambia, Guinea, Senegal and Cape Verde

He will later pay official working visits to Nigeria and Benin.

President Akufo-Addo during the first-leg of his ECOWAS tour, rallied his counterparts to strengthen the regional bloc and give true meaning to the ECOWAS Protocols on Free Movement of Goods and Persons by promoting open borders in the Community.

He explained that such move will promote regional cohesion and economic development and also boost trade and tourism, and, thus ensure that the peoples of the ECOWAS reap the economic benefits thereof.

“The opening of our borders will give true meaning to the ECOWAS Protocols on Free Movement of Goods and Persons, and will spur on progress and prosperity for our peoples,” that's according to President Akufo-Addo.

The President also pledged to strengthen ties between Ghana and countries in the region.


GNA/GBCONLINE