GHANA: OPENING OF UNITED NATIONS COURSE ON COMMERCIAL POLICY AND TRADE PROMOTION

Record ID: 337483

  • Title: GHANA: OPENING OF UNITED NATIONS COURSE ON COMMERCIAL POLICY AND TRADE PROMOTION
  • Date: 19th October 1972
  • Summary: 1. SV EXTERIOR..Conference Hall 0.05 2. MV INTERIOR..delegates seated 0.08 3. MV Major Felli addressing conference 0.13 4. SV Delegates listening 0.16 5. CU Felli continuing speech 0.19 6. CU Gordon Menzies listening 0.24 7. CU Delegates listening 0.26 8. CU PAN..Malagasy and Mall delegates 0.29 9. CUs delegates listening (3 shots) 0.35 10. CU Menzies addressing conference 0.40 11. MCU & CU delegates listening 0.46 12. MV H.L. Bazin addressing conference 0.50 13. MV Delegates listening 0.53 Initials ES. 1700 ES. 1715 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd November 1972 12:00
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  • Location: ACCRA, GHANA
  • Country: Ghana
  • Reuters ID: LVA3QVP5J0XRPHYZI10EL6O7IEUD
  • Story Text: A five-week course on Commercial Policy and Trade Promotion, organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (E.C.A.) opened in accra, Ghana on Monday (16 October).

    It's the first time such a course has been organised for both English and French-speaking countries. Among the nations represented were Burundi, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Kenya, Nigeria, Chad, congo Brazzaville, Libya, Mali, Gabon, Uganda, Zambia, Ghana and Egypt.

    Ghana's Commissioner for Trade and Tourism, Major Roger Felli, spoke at the course's opening ceremony and urged the closer co-operation of African countries to develop trade in the continent.

    The course will take participants to some of ghana's larger industrial complexes and to Lome in the republic of Togo for evaluation of industrial trade problems first hand.
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