A six-member trade delegation from Arkansas in the Delta Region of the United States of America has arrived in the Volta Region to explore investment opportunities in the region.
The delegation led by the Secretary of State of Arkansas, Mark Martin and his Deputy, Joseph K. Wood are on a week tour to see some places of interest in the region.
Among some of the areas they would be asesseing are communication, education and exchange program, agriculture trade and industry.
The main focus of the visit is to provide opportunity for the team to explore investment potential in the Volta Region with objectives of establishing a Sister Cities regional global partnership between the Volta Region of Ghana and the Arkansas, Delta Region of the USA.
As part of the visit, the investors would engage the local investors in an Economic Development Forum to provide a mutual platform where the two partners can fully harness business potentials from each other for a mutual accelerated growth.
In an interview with citinews the President Chair of the African Sister-Cities Foundation, the African Regional representatives of Sister Cities International, Prince Kwame Kludjeson, was optimistic that the prospects of the partnership between the Volta Region of Ghana and the Delta Region of Arkansas, USA would open up more business opportunities for the region which by extension would bring massive development into the region.
Speaking at the opening of the tour, the Volta Regional Minister Madam Hellen Adjoa Ntosu was grateful to the Kludjeson Brothers for their enormous roles in wooing investors into the region.
She however challenged businesses in the region to take advantage of the opportunity to grow their ventures. She also advised the youth in region to come out with good business plans and innovative ideas that could help develop themselves and the region.
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By: King Norbert Akpablie/citifmonline.com/Ghana