{"id":1194,"date":"2017-09-14T11:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mfasydney\/?page_id=1194"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:33:34","slug":"foreign-policy-objectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/foreign-policy\/foreign-policy-objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign Policy Objectives<\/h3>\n
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Good Neighbourliness<\/strong>
\nTo sustain the climate of peace and stability in the West African sub-region and to maintain cordial relations between Ghana and her neighbours as a means to addressing common challenges to development across national frontiers.<\/p>\n

Promoting Regional Integration<\/strong>
\nTo give substance to Government\u2019s declaration to make regional integration the flagship of Ghana\u2019s foreign policy and to derive maximum benefit from Ghana\u2019s membership of ECOWAS and other regional economic communities for Ghana\u2019s socio-economic advancement.<\/p>\n

Support for the African Union<\/strong>
\nTo play a leading role in collective efforts to promote peace, stability and economic development on the African continent and ensure Ghana\u2019s active participation in deliberations of the African Union.<\/p>\n

Developing and Sustaining International Goodwill, Solidarity and Support for National Development<\/strong>
\nTo maintain a reasonably high profile diplomatic presence abroad and thereby, seek to attract appreciable levels of foreign direct investments, political goodwill and international solidarity as well as a sustained positive image.<\/p>\n

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Economic Diplomacy<\/strong>
\nTo support the national objective of diversifying and increasing Ghana\u2019s export base by actively seeking markets for Ghanaian products abroad and taking advantage of preferential arrangements and multilateral trade agreements. The Ministry also supports the diversification and expansion of the tourism industry for job creation and revenue generation by marketing Ghana abroad as a competitive tourist destination and attracting investment into the hospitality industry.<\/p>\n

Participation in the Deliberations of Multilateral Organisations<\/strong>
\nTo help seek solutions to the challenges confronting international peace, stability and development and to articulate Ghana\u2019s views in major international conferences and deliberations of multilateral institutions.<\/p>\n

Promoting Cooperation in Scientific and Technical Research<\/strong>
\nTo facilitate the negotiation and signing of bilateral cooperation agreements with other developing countries in the field of scientific and technical research.<\/p>\n

Promoting Cooperation in Human Resource Development<\/strong>
\nTo facilitate the award of scholarships to Ghanaian students to study abroad under existing frameworks for bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n

Promoting Cooperation in the Health Sector<\/strong>
\nAs part of Government\u2019s efforts to boost healthcare delivery in Ghana, the Ministry through the instrumentality of various Joint Commissions for Cooperation and other bilateral and multilateral arrangements negotiates for additional resources including medical personnel, equipment and other technical assistance for the health sector.<\/p>\n

Promoting and Protecting the Welfare of Ghanaian Nationals Abroad<\/strong>
\nThe Ministry seeks to minimise the negative impact and optimise the potential benefits of migration on Ghana\u2019s development by promoting and protecting the welfare of Ghanaian nationals abroad and ensuring that they participate actively in national development.<\/p>\n

Biometric Passports\u00a0<\/strong>
\nTo comply with directives of ICAO and ECOWAS and improve the security and integrity of the Ghanaian passport, the Ministry completed the installation of hardware and software at the Passport Office and has since 23rd March, 2010, commenced the issuance of biometric passports. Passport Application Centres have been established at five (5) regional levels to enhance service delivery to the public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good Neighbourliness To sustain the climate of peace and stability in the West African sub-region and to maintain cordial relations between Ghana […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":540,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page_front-page.php","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5963,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1194\/revisions\/5963"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}