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09.05.2008 Business & Finance

‘Business Call To Action’

By Daily Guide
Business Call To Action
09.05.2008 LISTEN

President John Agyekum Kufuor has urged participants of the "Business Call To Action" Meeting in the United Kingdom to seriously consider Africa, not for aid, but for well-meaning partnerships that will catapult the continent out of its present predicament.

He said: "It is easy to make millions of dollars in Ghana, and Africa for that matter, than anywhere else in the world."

The "Business Call To Action" Meeting is an initiative by the UK Government in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to galvanize support from world major industries and businesses to respond to the challenges faced by developing countries in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.

The meeting was attended also by President Paul Kagame of Rwanda. Ghana and Rwanda are the only two countries in Africa that are making progress in meeting some of the MDG targets.

The meeting, which was opened by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was attended also by Neville Isdell, CEO of Coca Cola, Michael Klien, Chairman of the Institute Clients Group of CITI, Paul Walsh, CEO of DIAGEO, Graham Mackay, CEO of SABMiller; Jean-Philippe Courtois, President of Microsoft International; Hiromasa Yonekura, President of Sumitomo Chemicals, Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone, among others.

Later, President Kufuor held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

President Kufuor was accompanied to the meeting by H.E. Annan-Kato, Ghana's High Commissioner to the UK, Ambassador D.K. Osei and Mr Andrew Awuni, Press Secretary to the President.

By Ernest Nsiah Youngmann

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