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Ghana is looking for help to tackle the terror threats head-on in the wake of an increase in terror attacks in the West African subregion, the most recent of which claimed the lives of eight tomato vendors from Ghana.
In light of this, Ghana will sign a defence cooperation agreement with Ukraine in order to support the development of the country’s intelligence and security services.
This was one of numerous bilateral talks between his Ukrainian counterpart and Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who is now on a working tour.
“We have also looked at the potential of having a defence cooperation agreement,” Mr. Ablakwa stated in an interview with journalists on February 25. Our armed forces are extremely powerful as two nations.
“As two countries, we have very strong armed forces. As you do know, Ghana’s celebrated armed forces is one of the UN’s top troop-contributing nations.”
“They have tremendous experience in maintaining peace, maintaining law and order, and carrying out peacekeeping operations across the world. We believe that we can cooperate in that area. We are also looking at establishing an electronic warfare center so that we can deal with the threat of terrorism that we face in our region, which is now the epicenter for global terror.”
“So we are looking for international partners to build our capacity and our ability to neutralize these terrorists. And we see in Ukraine a worthy partner. And so we have discussed that,” he stressed.
“We discussed about the necessity of agricultural cooperation,” the foreign affairs minister added.
“Ghana is positioning itself to be an agrarian hub, and we want to be the food basket of our region. And we have discussed the potential in having full cooperation with Ukraine in that regard.”
Regarding education, Mr. Ablakwa stated, “Before the invasion, we had a lot of Ghanaian students here, in excess of 200, who were particularly studying in the field of medical science and engineering. Because of the invasion, a lot of them returned home and had to be reintegrated. We want to revive that educational cooperation so that we can continue to have more of our medical doctors and engineers here.”
“We can also receive a lot of Ukrainians who want to have a different exposure, different environment. We have also strong universities, some of the best in Africa, like the University of Ghana, which was established in 1948. So, we have discussed the need to revive our educational cooperation,” he stated.
Source: newsthemegh.com
