President Akufo-Addo to speak on global issues

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is expected to deliver a lecture on a wide range of issues in foreign policy and global affairs at the Accra International Conference Centre.

The lecture is scheduled for tomorrow and is being organised by the Council on Foreign Relations- Ghana, the nation’s premier think tank on foreign policy and international affairs.

The lecture climaxes activities to mark the fifth anniversary of the council. It is expected that President Akufo-Addo, who has decades of public service, will share his rich insights and perspectives on international affairs, the role of Africa in promoting global peace, security and development.

He would also share his experiences about his long advocacy for reforms in the international order. The President is both a witness and key participant in major contemporary international affairs in several international capacities, including being Ghana’s Foreign Minister, two-term Chairman of ECOWAS and several key frontline positions in the international arena.

The foreign policy and international relations think-tank, started in 2008, is modelled after similar well-established ones such as the Council of Foreign Relations in the US and Chatham House in the United Kingdom.

Some of the founder members are Kabral Blay-Amihere, who served as Ghana’s Ambassador to Cote d’Ivoire, Ambassador D. K. Osei, a career diplomat, who also served as Secretary to the President from 2001 to 2009, and J. K. Mensah, a former Director-General of the Research Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Relations.

The members of the council, who constituted the first members of the Executive Council, included Messrs Osei, Blay-Amihere, the late legal practitioner, Kojo Bentsi-Enchill and Abraham Agbozo.

The rest were Brigadier-General Francis Asiedu Agyemfra; communications consultant Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, Egbert Faibille Jnr, Lawrence R. A. Satuh and Dr Linda Akua Opongmaa Darkwa.