Ghana at World Meteorological Congress

Accra, May 10, GNA - The Minister of Communications Professor Mike Oquaye has left Accra for the 15th Session of the World Meteorological Congress in Geneva, Switzerland scheduled for May 7 to 25 . A release signed by the Acting Director General of the Ghana Meteorology Agency, A.Y. Nkansah said the congress would enable member countries to discuss and take decisions on the World Weather Watch (WWW) Programme, including the Global Meteorological Observing Systems, Telecommunications and Data Processing Systems, Instruments and Methods of Observation and WMO Satellites Activities.

Members would also examine programmes on Meteorological Applications to Aeronautical Meteorology, Public Weather Services, Water Resources Utilisation and Development, Agriculture, Marine and associated Oceanographic Activities.

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Congress is the supreme body of the WMO, consisting of 187 countries including Ghana which meets once every four years to take major and important decisions of varied Scientific, Technical, Administrative, Legal and Financial issues affecting the activities of member countries.

It said, Ghana in the past had been elected to the strategic position of Executive Council Members; three former Directors had the honour of being elected as Executive Council Members with one rising to the position of 3rd Vice President of the World Meteorological Organisation. The immediate past Director-General of the Ghana Meteorological Agency, Mr. Franklin Paracelsus Mote was also elected to Executive Council in 2003. Other members of the delegation who accompanied the Minister included Nana Adom-Boakye, Board Chairman, Ghana Meteorological Agency, Mr. Zinedeme Minia, Acting Director of Ghana Meteorological Agency and Mr. J. Wellens-Mensah, Director of Hydrological Services Department. 10 May 07