Accra, Jan. 10, GNA - The Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Kuichiro Matsuura, left Accra on Saturday evening for Abidjan after a three-day official visit to Ghana on the invitation of President John Agyekum Kufuor.

In a pre-departure interview, Mr Matsuura described his visit as "most successful," adding that, he had fruitful discussions with President Kufuor, Sector Ministers and Heads of UN agencies in the country.

He said the visit was also a "homecoming" since he stayed in Ghana about forty years ago.

While in the country, Mr Matsuura opened the second meeting of ECOWAS Ministers of Education and launched the International Year of the Commemoration of the Struggle Against Slavery at the Cape Coast Castle, marking 200 years of the abolition of slavery.

Mr Matsuura, who was accompanied by his wife, was seen off by Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Minister of Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City, Professor George Hagan, Chairman of the National Commission on Culture and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative, Mr Alfred Sallia Fawundu.