Foreign Minister leaves for NEPAD Summit

The Foreign Minister, Mr Hackman Owusu-Agyemang left Accra on today for Abuja, Nigeria at the head of a four-man government delegation to attend the second Heads of State Implementation Committee meeting of the New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

Briefing journalists at the Airport, Mr Simon Nyameke, Deputy Director at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, said the meeting would review progress made since the last heads of state meeting and also discuss conflict prevention, management and resolution mechanisms as well as good political governance.

Mr Nyameke said the heads of state would consider NEPAD's relationship with the secretariat of the Organisation of African Unity, discuss economic co-operation, capital inflow, debt cancellation and foreign direct investment. The Foreign Minister is representing President John Agyekum Kufuor.