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Accra, June 6, GNA – President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo to address the 108th International Labor Conference at
Geneva, Switzerland, June 10, 2019.
His participation in the conference is at
by order of the leaders of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
A statement issued by Mr. Eugene Arhin, the
Director of Communications at the Presidency, with copy to the Ghana News Agency
in Accra, said the president would leave the country on Sunday 9 June 2019
for the meeting.
The statement said that the president would
accompanied by Shirley, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration
Ayorkor Botchway and Ignatius Baffuor Employment and Labor Relations
Awuah.
The conference, which would also commemorate
celebration of the centenary of the establishment of the ILO, will be held on
theme "Building a future with decent work".
President Akufo-Addo who will address the
opening session of the Conference, would outline Ghana's contribution to the
future of the world of work.
This year's session brings together more than
5000 delegates from around the world to find solutions to the challenges of
the future of the world of work and celebrate the centenary of the ILO.
The International Labor Conference is the
The highest decision-making body of the ILO, which meets every year, brings together the
tripartite delegations of the 187 Member States of the Organization and a number of
observers from other international actors, to examine a series of topics
on the agenda by the Governing Body of the ILO.
President Akufo-Addo, said the statement:
would be after the Geneva Conference embark on five Caribbean countries working
visit from June 11, 2019 to June 16, 2019 as part of the promotional efforts of the
"Year of return".
He would lead the Ghanaian delegation,
composed of Shirley, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration
Ayorkor Botchway and Barbara Oteng, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture
Gyasi on tour.
Countries visited by the president
are; Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and
Jamaica.
The president proclaimed 2019 as the
"Return Year" in Ghana, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of
the transatlantic slave trade, when the first 20 West African slaves landed in
Jamestown, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, commemoration.
Commemoration, President Akufo-Addo
says "is a statement of our determination that never again should Africa
peoples allow themselves to submit to such dehumanizing conditions, sold
into slavery, and have their freedoms reduced in order to build by force
countries other than their own, and create wealth for the peoples of unknown countries
where they were sent, a wealth from which they greatly benefited
excluded."
The events of "the year of the return" are,
aimed above all at consolidating relations with the descendants of Africa, residents
in the Americas and the Caribbean, which have been defined as the sixth region of
the African Union.
The president will return to Ghana on
Monday, June 17, 2019.
GNA
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