{"id":2913,"date":"2018-09-05T09:57:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T09:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2018-09-28T19:28:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T19:28:51","slug":"ghana-and-china-sign-eight-cooperation-agreements-memoranda-of-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/ghana-and-china-sign-eight-cooperation-agreements-memoranda-of-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana  and China sign eight Cooperation Agreements,  Memoranda  of Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Republic of Ghana and the People&#8217;s Republic of China have signed eight (8) Cooperation Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding in different sectors of their economies to help deepen bilateral relations between the two countries.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The agreements were signed when President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo paid a state visit to China. President Akufo-Addo and his Chinese counterpart, His Excellency Mr. Xi Jinping held bilateral talks prior to the signing of the agreements on Saturday, September 1, 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The agreements are;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">One belt one road Memorandum of Understanding<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">Memorandum on Regional Aviation Cooperation<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">Agreement for Cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">Cooperation to carry out Maternal and Child Health Project<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">Framework Agreement on Financing Insurance Cooperation (<\/span>$<span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\"> 2 billion Sino-Hydro deal)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">Economic Cooperation on Phase 2 project of the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ho<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">Cooperation on the expansion of the Cape Coast Stadium<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">Cooperation on the supply of police vehicles to the Ghana Police Service<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">President Akufo-Addo also attended the third Summit of the Forum for China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) from 3<sup>rd<\/sup> to 4<sup>th<\/sup> September 2018, held in Beijing under the theme \u201cChina and Africa: Towards an Even Stronger Community with a shared Future Through Win-Win Cooperation\u201d. FOCAC provided a diplomatic mechanism to promote dialogue between China and Africa, and also facilitated the development of a common political and economic agenda to advance constructive South -South cooperation for the mutual benefit of both sides. FOCAC was established by the Government of China in the year 2000 to help nurture, consolidate and broaden relations between China and Africa.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9IPAB<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Ghana and the People&#8217;s Republic of China have signed eight (8) Cooperation Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding in different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}