Ghana and The Netherlands have agreed to strengthen their bilateral relations and take steps to allow Ghana to extend commerce volumes by way of the Africa Continental Free Commerce Space (AfCFTA).

In view of this, Ghana’s Minister of Overseas Affairs and RegionalIntergration, Shirley AyorkorBotchwey, has invited Dutch buyers to discover the nation’s beneficial funding surroundings for enterprise offers.

This transpired throughout a gathering between the Minister and her Dutch counterpart MrWopke Hoekstra on Tuesday in The Hague, on the sidelines of the Africa Adaptation Summit, which was held in Rotterdam on Monday.

An announcement from the Ministry mentioned the discussions centered on the will by each nations to strengthen the age-old relations, based on a mutual dedication to work carefully collectively in lots of areas of widespread curiosity.

Ms Botchwey recalled that the 2 nations had through the years firmed up their alliance in a variety of bilateral and multilateral sectors bordering on commerce, funding, agriculture, peace, and safety, amongst others.

The 2 Ministers, due to this fact, agreed to observe up on political consultations held in Accra earlier this yr to additional improve partnerships and share greatest practices within the numerous sectors.

Ms Botchwey additionally highlighted the federal government’s financial agenda which was predicated on the transformation of the construction of the financial system to carry out past support, and scale back dependence on imports to develop into an exporter of semi-processed and manufactured commodities with the personal sector on the middle of the coverage.

She identified that the method of industrialisation resulting in the institution of factories and industries, which Ghana was presently endeavor, would, finally, present job alternatives, notably, for the Ghanaian youth.

Ms Botchwey acknowledged the Dutch Authorities’s spectacular experience in agriculture and processing of agricultural produce and praised the World Horti Heart, which is the information and innovation middle for worldwide greenhouse horticulture, in addition to the Cargill Cocoa Processing Plant (the place Ghana’s Cocoa is primarily used), to examine the amenities.

She indicated that collaboration with such corporations would add impetus to the federal government’s drive to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youth and stop them from embarking on perilous journeys to Europe.

She thanked the Dutch for the assorted types of collaboration by way of private-partner sector devices which had higher participation by the Dutch and Ghanaian personal sector within the financial improvement of the nation.

On the multilateral stage, the Ministers referred to as for cooperation to make sure decisive motion find lasting options to the brand new threats to international peace and safety.

These threats included the insecurity within the Sahel and the Gulf of Guinea, terrorism and violent extremism, local weather change and its attendant impression on the surroundings and livelihoods.

They had been hopeful that cooperation on the multilateral stage, contemplating Ghana’s membership of the United Nations Safety Council, would result in discovering an enduring answer to the Russian-Ukrainian warfare and its attendant challenges such because the rising price of meals, gas, and vitality.