{"id":353874,"date":"2017-09-16T08:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T08:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=353874"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:23:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:23:13","slug":"nana-addo-leads-delegation-to-un-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=353874","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo leads delegation to UN General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana\u00a0Akufo-Addo is leading Ghana\u2019s delegation to the 72<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0session of the United Nations General Assembly, and will also participate in UN Sustainable Development Goals-related events.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo will also deliver a speech on the theme \u201cAfrica Beyond Aid\u201d, at the 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development, at the Earth Institute, Columbia University in New York.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1497631711310-0\" data-google-query-id=\"CK2Irdn-p9YCFTgD0wodzUQGAg\">\n<div>He is expected to hold bilateral talks with some colleague Heads of State, as well as with some CEOs of some global enterprises.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On September 19, President Akufo-Addo will be conferred with the National Achievement Award,\u00a0on behalf of the people of Ghana, at an event organised by the Africa-America Institute.<\/p>\n<p>On September\u00a021, President Akufo-Addo will deliver his maiden address to the UN General Assembly, and hold a meeting with UN Secretary-General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, on September 22.<\/p>\n<p>He is being accompanied by the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo; Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway and Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba; Deputy Minister for Energy, Mohammed Amin Adam; and officials from the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo is expected back in Ghana on September, 24.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana\u00a0Akufo-Addo is leading Ghana\u2019s delegation to the 72nd\u00a0session of the United Nations General Assembly, and will also participate in UN Sustainable Development Goals-related events. President Akufo-Addo will also deliver a speech on the theme \u201cAfrica Beyond Aid\u201d, at the 5th\u00a0Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development, at the Earth Institute, Columbia University in New York. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3,156,11162],"class_list":["post-353874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-nana-addo","tag-un-general-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}