{"id":9404,"date":"2014-03-28T13:09:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=9404"},"modified":"2014-03-28T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:19:29","slug":"govt-will-support-decision-ecowas-decision-on-epa-hannah-tetteh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=9404","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t will support ECOWAS decision on EPA &#8211; Hannah Tetteh"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9406\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hannah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9406\" alt=\"Hannah Tetteh\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hannah.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hannah.jpg 960w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hannah-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah Tetteh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Government says Ghana has no position on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) yet.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Minister, Hannah Tetteh says government will support any decision by the ECOWAS leadership on the EPA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a question of what is Ghana\u2019s stance because this is an ECOWAS decision. Either we all agree or we don\u2019t agree,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Heads of State in the sub-region are currently meeting in Ivory Coast to among other things, take a position on the EPA which will open their respective country markets to the European for free trade.<\/p>\n<p>Civil society groups in Ghana have petitioned President John Mahama not to sign the partnership arguing that it will be detrimental to Ghana\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>The Trades and Industry Minister, Haruna Iddrisu subsequently urged the\u00a0concerned groups and organizations to be assured that government will protect the interest of Ghana regarding the signing on to the EPA.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to<strong> Citi News<\/strong>, Ms Tetteh said the decision lies with the ECOWAS leaders and not just Ghana alone saying, \u201cwe can\u2019t have a single country position. That is the whole thing about having a regional agreement. We must have a regional consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EPA allows countries to export goods to the EU without tariffs or maximum quotas, under World Trade Organization rules.<\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament has granted the African countries an extension until October 2014 to ratify their interim EPAs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government says Ghana has no position on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) yet. Foreign Affairs Minister, Hannah Tetteh says government will support any decision by the ECOWAS leadership on the EPA. \u201cIt\u2019s not a question of what is Ghana\u2019s stance because this is an ECOWAS decision. Either we all agree or we don\u2019t agree,\u201d she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9406,"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-9404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404","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=9404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}