Chinese Premier to visit Ghana

Accra, May 23, GNA - The Chinese Premier, Mr Wen Jaibao would pay an official visit to Ghana from June 18 to June 19 2006, Mr Andrew Awuni, Press Secretary to the President, announced on Tuesday.

This would be his first visit to Ghana during which he would hold bilateral talks with President John Agyekum Kufuor, inaugurate the Accra - Nsawam road, attend a State dinner in his honour and meet with Chinese nationals.

The Ministers of State for Commerce, Health, Agriculture and other Government officials would accompany Mr Wen.

Mr Awuni told a Castle press briefing that President Kufuor had accepted two major international invitations in June and July - he would be the Guest of Honour at this year's International Cocoa Conference to be held in London from June 1 2006, where he would address the gathering on the "Cocoa Industry as a Platform for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals."

The second invitation is to serve as Guest Speaker at the opening ceremony of the Wiberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom on July 6 2006.

Accra, May 23, GNA - The Chinese Premier, Mr Wen Jaibao would pay an official visit to Ghana from June 18 to June 19 2006, Mr Andrew Awuni, Press Secretary to the President, announced on Tuesday.

This would be his first visit to Ghana during which he would hold bilateral talks with President John Agyekum Kufuor, inaugurate the Accra - Nsawam road, attend a State dinner in his honour and meet with Chinese nationals.

The Ministers of State for Commerce, Health, Agriculture and other Government officials would accompany Mr Wen.

Mr Awuni told a Castle press briefing that President Kufuor had accepted two major international invitations in June and July - he would be the Guest of Honour at this year's International Cocoa Conference to be held in London from June 1 2006, where he would address the gathering on the "Cocoa Industry as a Platform for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals."

The second invitation is to serve as Guest Speaker at the opening ceremony of the Wiberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom on July 6 2006.