President Akufo-Addo speaks at the centennial celebration of the ILO in Geneva

General News of Monday, June 10, 2019

Source: presidency.gov.gh

2019-06-10

The President of the International Labor Organization (ILO), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was invited to address the 108th International Labor Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

He will lead the Ghanaian delegation, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, the Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, MP for Anyaa Sowutuom and Minister of Employment and Labor Relations, Hon. Ignatius Baffuor Awuah, Member of Parliament for Sunyani West, at the Conference. He will leave Ghana on Sunday 9 June.

The conference, which also commemorates the centennial celebration of the creation of the ILO, stands on the theme "Building a future with decent work".

President Akufo-Addo will deliver a keynote address at the opening session of the Conference, which will begin on Monday, June 10, 2019, during which he will outline Ghana's contribution to the future of the world of work.

This year's session brings together more than 5,000 delegates from around the world to find solutions to the challenges of the future of the world of work and to celebrate the centenary of the ILO.

The International Labor Conference is the highest decision-making body of the ILO. It meets annually and brings together the tripartite delegations of the Organization's 187 Member States and a number of observers from other international actors to discuss a series of topics on its agenda by the ILO Governing Body. .

Return year

Subsequently, President Akufo-Addo will undertake working visits to five Caribbean countries from 11 to 16 June 2019 as part of efforts to promote "the year of return". He will lead the Ghanaian delegation, composed of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, the Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, and the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, the Hon. Barbara Oteng Gyasi, Member of the Prestea Huni Valley, on tour.

The countries visited by the President are Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica.

Having proclaimed 2019 "Year of Return" in Ghana, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, when the first 20 slaves from West Africa landed at Jamestown, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the commemoration of President Akufo-Addo, "is a declaration of our determination never to let African people afford to suffer such dehumanizing conditions, to sell them in slavery and to have their freedoms restricted in order to constitute by force of countries different from their own, and create wealth for the peoples of the unknown lands to which they were sent, wealth of enjoyment from which they have been largely excluded. "

The events of "the year of return" are aimed above all at consolidating relations with the descendants of Africa, residents of the Americas and the Caribbean, who have been defined as the sixth region of the African Union. .

The president will return to Ghana on Monday, June 17, 2019.