{"id":6488,"date":"2026-04-18T22:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:01:53","slug":"ghana-enhances-relations-with-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/ghana-enhances-relations-with-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"GHANA ENHANCES RELATIONS WITH SPAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 17<sup>th<\/sup> \u00a0April, 2026 the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Honourable Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa (MP) held discussions in Barcelona with his Spanish counterpart, His Excellency Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares Bueno.<\/p>\n<p>He commended Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez and the Government of Spain for the flagship immigration policy which aims to legalize and integrate 500,000 undocumented migrants already living in Spain at least 5 months before December 31<sup>st<\/sup> , 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The new policy which is being implemented between April 16<sup>th<\/sup> and end of June, 2026 ensures that rights of migrants are protected while offering them jobs.<\/p>\n<p>This policy does not only guarantee legal status, dignity and employment for migrants, it offers skills development and multicultural harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Honourable Ablakwa also highlighted steps put in place by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ghana to assist Ghanaian emigrants desirous of benefiting from the policy.<\/p>\n<p>He further indicated the commitment of Government of Ghana in assisting with relevant official documents.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana and Spain have also agreed to deepen cooperation in maritime security and to sign labour mobility agreements as soon as practicable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 17th \u00a0April, 2026 the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Honourable Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa (MP) held discussions in Barcelona with his Spanish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6495,"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-6488","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\/6488","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=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}