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His participation in the conference is at the request of the management of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
In a statement issued by Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications to the Presidency, with a copy to the Ghana Press Agency in Accra, the President will leave the country on Sunday 9 June 2019 to attend the meeting.
According to the statement, the president would be accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, and the director of employment and labor relations, Ignatius Baffuor Awuah.
The conference, which would also commemorate the centennial celebration of the creation of the ILO, will be held on the theme "Building a future with decent work".
President Akufo-Addo, who will speak at the opening session of the Conference, 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 187 Member States of the Organization and a number of observers from other international actors, to consider a series of topics inscribed on its agenda. agenda by the Council. ILO Governing Body.
According to the statement, President Akufo-Addo will travel after the Geneva Conference as part of a working visit to five Caribbean countries, from 11 to 201 June to 16 June 2019, as part of efforts to promote "the year of return".
He would lead the Ghanaian delegation, including Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, and Barbara Oteng Gyasi, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture.
The countries visited by the President are: Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica.
The President 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 in Jamestown, in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The commemoration, said President Akufo-Addo, said "is a statement of our determination never to allow African people to afford to be subjected to such dehumanizing conditions, to be sold in slavery and to see their restricted freedoms in order to forcibly build their own countries and create wealth for the peoples of the unknown lands to which they were sent, wealth of enjoyment from which they were 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.
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