Accra, Nov. 29, GNA - President Mills made his first flight with the new Presidential Jet, FALCON 900, on Sunday which taxied and took off smoothly into the sky from the Kotoka International Airport. The President left Accra with the jet to Tripoli, Libya, to attend the third Africa-European Summit, which opens on Monday, November 29, 2010. In an interview with Journalists at the Airport, Mr Koku Anyidoho, Director of Communications at the Presidency, debunked an allegation that President Mills would not used the new jet.

He said the Presidency would only accept the express advice on the security and safety of the aircraft for official trips from the managers of the aircraft, the Ghana Air Force.

Mr Anyidoho said information from the Ghana Air Force attested to the fact that the new jet since its arrival had to undergo certain routine checks to ascertain its readiness to successfully embark on official trips. On the two-day Africa-European Summit, which is on the theme:

"Investment, Economic Growth and Job Creation", Mr Anyidoho said it would address key issues of peace and security, climate change, regional integration, private sector development, infrastructure and energy, economic co-operation, and the Millennium Development Goals, agriculture and food security and migration.

Vice President John Dramani Mahama, national security heads, Ministers of State and other dignitaries saw the President off at the Jubilee side of the Airport. 29 Nov. 10