General News of Monday, 17 July 2006

Source: GNA

President Kufuor returns home

Accra, July 16 - President John Agyekum Kufuor returned home on Sunday evening at the end of a two-states working visit. Kufuor left Accra on July 3rd.

Nana Addo-Danquah Akufo-Addo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and NEPAD and some senior government officials accompanied him.

In the UK, the President delivered a keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation.

From London, President Kufuor left for Brazil, where he signed a number of agreements for the mutual gains of Ghana and Brazil.

Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, the Inspector General of Police, Mr Patrick Acheampong, Lieutenant General J B Danquah, Chief of Defence Staff, ministers of state and other senior government officials met the President on arrival at the airport.