{"id":363444,"date":"2017-10-20T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=363444"},"modified":"2017-10-20T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:14:27","slug":"itlos-team-to-receive-national-awards-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/itlos-team-to-receive-national-awards-nana-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"ITLOS team to receive national awards &#8211; Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced plans to bestow national honors on the legal team that ensured victory at the International Tribunal\u00a0of\u00a0the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), in the\u00a0maritime dispute with Cote d\u2019Ivoire<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; let me express, again, the gratitude of our nation to all of you, and I am sure that, at the appropriate time, national honours will be duly conferred,&#8221; he said at the Flagstaff House on Thursday night, at a ceremony to celebrate the legal victory.<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo also said the success chalked at ITLOS in the maritime dispute, was down to the\u00a0efforts of all his predecessors and not just his administration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-363413\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Itlos-fete-4.jpg\" alt=\"itlos-fete-4\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-363414\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Itlos-fete-5.jpg\" alt=\"itlos-fete-5\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Special Chamber of the<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/23\/ghana-wins-maritime-dispute-case-against-ivory-coast\/\"> ITLOS\u00a0 unanimously declared <\/a><\/strong><\/span>that Ghana had not violated Cote d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s sovereign rights in its oil exploration activities after arbitration began in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLadies and gentlemen, this victory could not have been achieved through the action of one person, one political party or one government. It has been a collective effort, in the important role played by successive presidents, and the government should not be overlooked, discounted or understated on such an occasion as this,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p>The President, who\u00a0lauded all Ghana&#8217;s Presidents under the Fourth Republic; namely Jerry Rawlings, John Kufuor, John Evans Atta Mills and John Mahama, expressed gratitude to them for the roles they had played in the past and present, to ensure that the nation&#8217;s oil resources were not lost in that dispute.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-363418\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Itlos-fete-9.jpg\" alt=\"itlos-fete-9\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-363402\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Itlos-fete-10-Nana-Addo.jpg\" alt=\"itlos-fete-10-nana-addo\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight, I pay tribute to the former President of the Republic, His Excellency Jerry John Rawlings, under whose farsighted leadership, in 1983, the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) was established. GNPC was set up to be a strategic, commercial vehicle to help accelerate the pace for the exploration of oil and gas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was under the leadership of my former boss, the former President of the Republic, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor, that GNPC was restructured to ensure that it focused on its core activity of exploration, and the promotion of the oil and gas potential of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was in 2014 that my immediate predecessor, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, took the courageous decision to initiate arbitration,&#8221; President Nana Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Farida Yussuf\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced plans to bestow national honors on the legal team that ensured victory at the International Tribunal\u00a0of\u00a0the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), in the\u00a0maritime dispute with Cote d\u2019Ivoire &#8220;&#8230; let me express, again, the gratitude of our nation to all of you, and I am sure that, at the appropriate time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1258,10,11],"tags":[1257,3,84,156],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ITLOS team to receive national awards - Nana Addo - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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