Cuba, Ghana To Identify areas of Co-Operation

Ghana and Cuba will continue to identify and develop areas of meaningful and productive co-operation that will strengthen trade, economic, agricultural, scientific and technical co-operation to their natural benefit, Mr. Chris Kpodo, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, said yesterday in Accra.

He said their permanent joint commission for cooperation established since 1982 provided an effective framework for the conduct of the overall co-operation between them.

Mr. Kpodo said this at a photo exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of Ghana-Cuba relations. It was organised by the Cuban Institute for Friendship with Peoples.

He expressed gratitude to Cuba for her assistance to Ghana especially in the area of education and health.

Mr. Kpodo said Ghana has benefited immensely from scholarships granted to Ghanaian students by Cuba, including the establishment of Ghana's own school on the Isle of Youth, a facility that produced almost 1,000 professionally trained personnel that provide valuable service to various sectors of the nation's national development activity.

Prof. Kofi Awoonor, Chairman of the Council of State, said Ghanaians, and for that matter Africans, do not appreciate the significant contribution other countries are making for their country because they are not recognised especially in the newspapers.

Dr. Miguel Perez Cruz, Ambassador of Cuba in Ghana, said diplomatic cooperation between the two countries is warm. Mrs. Alicia Corredera, Vice President of the Institute, laid wreaths on the tombs of the late President Kwame Nkrumah and his wife, Fathia.

Source: GNA