{"id":99064,"date":"2015-03-13T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T10:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=99064"},"modified":"2015-03-13T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T10:23:27","slug":"veep-arrives-in-tokyo-for-world-conference-on-disaster-risk-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=99064","title":{"rendered":"Veep arrives in Tokyo for\u00a0World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Vice President, K. B. Amissah-Arthur, has arrived in Tokyo, Japan for the 3rd\u00a0U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is accompanied by his wife, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Vice-President-Amissah-Arthur-being-welcomed-to-Tokyo-Japan.-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99067\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Vice-President-Amissah-Arthur-being-welcomed-to-Tokyo-Japan.-2.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Amissah-Arthur being welcomed to Tokyo, Japan. (2)\" width=\"525\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conference, which will be held in the city of Sendai from March 14 to 18, is expected\u00a0to adopt guidelines on bolstering counter-measures to climate-related disasters, which are worsening in some parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The guidelines are expected to stress the importance of disaster prevention measures\u00a0and investment in infrastructure in developing countries so that natural calamities do not hamper economic growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whilst in Tokyo, Mr Amissah-Arthur will hold meetings with top-level officials of the\u00a0Government of Japan, including the Foreign Minister and the chairperson of Japan\u2019s\u00a0Parliamentary Select Committee for Defence, Overseas Development Assistance and Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VP-Amissah-Arthur-amd-his-wife-in-a-pose-with-Ghanas-ambassador-to-Japan-and-others.-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-99069 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VP-Amissah-Arthur-amd-his-wife-in-a-pose-with-Ghanas-ambassador-to-Japan-and-others.-2.jpg\" alt=\"VP Amissah-Arthur amd his wife in a pose with Ghana's ambassador to Japan and others. (2)\" width=\"400\" height=\"516\" \/><\/a>The Vice President, who is scheduled to also meet with senior executives of a number of\u00a0companies in Japan, is expected to promote Ghana as a stable democracy and a safe investment destination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Little-Gabriella-welcomes-Mrs-Amissah-Arthur-to-Tokyo-Japan..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-99065 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Little-Gabriella-welcomes-Mrs-Amissah-Arthur-to-Tokyo-Japan..jpg\" alt=\"Little Gabriella welcomes Mrs Amissah-Arthur to Tokyo, Japan.\" width=\"400\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Office of Vice President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice President, K. B. Amissah-Arthur, has arrived in Tokyo, Japan for the 3rd\u00a0U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. He is accompanied by his wife, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur. The conference, which will be held in the city of Sendai from March 14 to 18, is expected\u00a0to adopt guidelines on bolstering counter-measures to climate-related disasters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":99075,"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":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-99064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99064","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}