{"id":4515,"date":"2022-10-31T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2022-10-31T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:04:45","slug":"foreign-minister-of-turkiye-pays-official-visit-to-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/foreign-minister-of-turkiye-pays-official-visit-to-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"FOREIGN MINISTER OF T\u00dcRKIYE PAYS OFFICIAL VISIT TO GHANA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey held bilateral talks with her T\u00fcrkish counterpart, H.E. Mr. Mevl\u00fct Cavu?o?lu, on Wednesday 26<sup>th<\/sup> October, 2022 to discuss issues of mutual interests. The T\u00fcrkish Foreign Minister is on a three-country visit to Ghana, Senegal and Benin.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the two Foreign Ministers recalled various high-level visits undertaken between Ghana and T\u00fcrkiye which have contributed to the strengthening of the existing bonds of friendship and cooperation, both at the bilateral and multilateral levels. They also recognised the need to further deepen economic ties, bilateral trade as well as cooperation on issues relating to peace and security.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey took the opportunity to encourage the T\u00fcrkish Business Community to explore investment opportunities in areas such as agriculture, manufacturing, technology and energy sectors to boost the economic trade relations between the two countries. She also urged the Business Community to take advantage of the large market of 1.3 billion people offered by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), to increase bilateral and intra- Africa trade, with Ghana as the entry point.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, the T\u00fcrkish Foreign Minister, H.E. Mr. Mevl\u00fct Cavu?o?lu commended Ghana\u2019s role on the United Nations Security Council and indicated his country\u2019s readiness to cooperate with the Government of Ghana for mutual benefit and contribute to the deepening of the existing good relations between the two countries. He also commended Ghana\u2019s Foreign Minister for her stupendous participation and contribution in the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in March 2022 in T\u00fcrkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey held bilateral talks with her T\u00fcrkish counterpart, H.E. Mr. Mevl\u00fct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4516,"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-4515","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\/4515","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=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}