President For UK In June

... He'll be in Germany for World Cup
... .. another UK visit in July
President J. A. Kufuor is scheduled to attend this year?s international cocoa conference to be held in London on June 1, 2006.

The presidential spokesman and press secretary to the President, Mr Andrew Awuni, told journalists at a press briefing at the Castle, Osu, yesterday that the President had also accepted an invitation to be the guest speaker at the opening ceremony for the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2006.

The President is also likely to go to Germany to witness Ghana?s opening match against Italy in the World Cup tournament on June 12.

Mr Awuni said the President would address the international cocoa conference on the ?Cocoa Industry as a platform for achieving the Millennium Development Goals? on June 2, 2006.