Akufo-Addo leads Ghana to Commonwealth Conference

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice is leading a three-man Ghanaian delegation to the Triennial Commonwealth Law Ministers Conference in the West Indies.

Other members of the delegation were Mrs Amma Gaisie, Chief State Attorney and Acting Head of the International Law Division and Mrs Merley Wood, Principal State Attorney of the Prosecutions Division of the Ministry of Justice.

A statement issued in Accra on Monday by the Ministry said the delegation, which left Accra at the week-end to attend the conference at Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the West Indies would be away for a week.

It said the Conference would deliberate on matters relating to democracy and good governance within the Commonwealth, International terrorism and the legal response to technological developments such as e-commerce.

Other issues to be discussed were the fight against drug trafficking, money laundering and the promotion of law as an instrument of economic development.