{"id":7102,"date":"2026-11-11T11:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/?p=7102"},"modified":"2026-11-11T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T11:45:21","slug":"ghana-and-slovak-republic-to-explore-cooperation-in-automotive-industry-banking-and-defence-including-a-desire-to-sign-visa-waiver-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/ghana-and-slovak-republic-to-explore-cooperation-in-automotive-industry-banking-and-defence-including-a-desire-to-sign-visa-waiver-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"GHANA AND SLOVAK REPUBLIC TO EXPLORE COOPERATION IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, BANKING AND DEFENCE, INCLUDING A DESIRE TO SIGN VISA WAIVER AGREEMENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa (MP), received the Open Letters of H.E. Mr. Martin Podstavek, non-resident Ambassador-Designate of the Slovak Republic to Ghana, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Accra, on Monday, 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister expressed Ghana\u2019s readiness to strengthen cooperation with the Slovak Republic, especially in the automotive industry, electric vehicle, banking, pharmaceuticals and mass transportation. He also identified defence and security cooperation as important components of the bilateral relationship and welcomed suggestions by H.E Mr. Podstavek on Slovak\u2019s interest in signing visa waiver agreement with Ghana for holders of diplomatic and service passports.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, H.E. Mr. Podstavek described Ghana as an important partner of the Slovak Republic, and emphasised the need to strengthen political and economic consultations, advance the review of bilateral agreements and explore further opportunities for cooperation in defence and security. He further called for a review of existing bilateral agreements to ensure that they adequately support the evolving partnership.<\/p>\n<p>He took the opportunity to inform about the Ghana-Slovak Business forum that will take place in Slovak Republic this year, and expressed the hope that more businesses from Ghana will participate. He was hopeful that, the year 2027 will see Ghana hosting a similar business forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa (MP), received the Open Letters of H.E. Mr. Martin Podstavek, non-resident Ambassador-Designate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7103,"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-7102","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\/7102","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=7102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7104,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions\/7104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfa.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}