- Title: GHANA: VICE-CHAIRMAN HARLLEY HOSTS DINNER FOR IVORY COAST DELEGATION IN ACCRA
- Date: 5th July 1969
- Summary: HARLLEY RECEIVING DELEGATION: OFFICIALS SHAKING HANDS WITH DELEGATES: DELEGATES AND OFFICIALS CHATTING: GUESTS IN DINING ROOM: HARLLEY SPEAKING: KACOU SPEAKING. Initials JH/VS/JF/SS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 20th July 1969 13:00
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- Location: ACCRA, GHANA
- Country: Ghana
- Reuters ID: LVAEQ3MMHF5VVSVKANL9EE8IR4X3
- Story Text: MR. J.W.K. HARLLEY, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF GHANA'S NATIONAL LIBERATION COUNCIL, WAS HOST LAST THURSDAY (3 JULY) AT A DINNER IN ACCRA IN HONOUR OF A DELEGATION OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FROM THE IVORY COAST. THE 46-MAN IVORY COAST DELEGATION, COMPRISED OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, TECHNICAL OFFICERS AND MILITARY PERSONNEL, ARRIVED IN GHANA LAST MONDAY (30 JUNE) ON A FIVE-DAY STUDY MISSION.
IN ADDITION TO MR. HARLLEY, WHO IS ALSO COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, A NUMBER OF OTHER SENIOR GHANAIAN COMMISSIONERS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WERE PRESENT AT THE DINNER.
IN A SPEECH, MR. HARLLEY SAID THAT GHANA WAS HAPPY TO COLLABORATE WITH HER NEIGHBOURS IN THE VOLTA RIVER PROJECT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION WHICH WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES ARE WORKING HARD TO ACHIEVE. HE SAID THAT GHANAIANSAPE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DAY WHEN POWER FORM THE AKOSOMBO DAM WILL LIGHT THE HOMES AND TOWN OF NEIGHBOURING STATES AND HELP NEIGHBOURING NATIONS OPERATE THEIR INDUSTRIAL VENTURES.
MR. ALCIDE KACOU, THE IVORY COAST MINISTER OF WORKS AND TRANSPORT AND THE LEADER OF HIS COUNTRY'S DELEGATION, SAID THE PURPOSE OF THEIR VISIT WAS TO LEARN ABOUT THE TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE VOLTA RIVER PROJECT. HE SAID THAT HIS DELEGATION HAD BEEN HIGHLY IMPRESSED BY THE FACT GHANAIANS WERE IN CHARGE OF ALL TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE DAM CONSTRUCTION.
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