President John Mahama is paying a state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany.<\/p>\n
The visit is expected to strengthen relations between the two countries and explore new avenues for cooperation.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”rNrq3neh2mTNlr5daxqD3ZbgaMnlDwMr”]The President left Accra Sunday morning for Berlin, and will on Monday hold discussions with the Federal President, Joachim Gauck, and the German Chancellor, Dr. Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n
He will hold meetings with other German officials, institutions, businesses and address an Investment Forum on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n Ghana and Germany established diplomatic relations in 1960 and have since enjoyed the cooperation and support of each other.<\/p>\n Ghana is a priority partner-country for German Development Cooperation and has benefited from German assistance in various facets including social, economic and political development.<\/p>\n Germany is supporting Ghana’s 2013- 2015 fiscal year with EUR130 million, comprising EUR 100 million for Financial Cooperation (FC) projects\/ programmes and EUR 30 million for Technical Cooperation (TC).<\/p>\n President Mahama, who is the Chair of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, will in his meetings also discuss issues of concern to the West African sub-region and the African continent.<\/p>\n This include fighting terrorism, strengthening the regional blocs, and establishment of emergency health alert systems. President John Mahama is paying a state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany. The visit is expected to strengthen relations between the two countries and explore new avenues for cooperation. [contextly_sidebar id=”rNrq3neh2mTNlr5daxqD3ZbgaMnlDwMr”]The President left Accra Sunday morning for Berlin, and will on Monday hold discussions with the Federal President, Joachim Gauck, and the German […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-83366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83366","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSource: Flagstaff House Communications Bureau<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"