Kufuor to visit Trinidad and Tobago, China

...attend Emancipation Day Celebration & Olympics
Accra, July 21, GNA - President John Agyekum Kufuor has been invited as the Special Guest of Honour to this year's Emancipation Day Celebration scheduled for July 29 to August 3, in Trinidad and Tobago. Mr. Andrew Awuni, the Press Secretary in a signed press release said the celebration would be under the theme: "Crossing new frontiers to conquer today's challenges" and would involve lectures by representatives from Africa on the topic, "Africa and its Diaspora."

The Emancipation Day festival is celebrated annually in Trinidad and Tobago, to mark the end of slavery on August 1, 1838, and has been described as a monumental pan-African festival- a true celebration of Africa outside of Africa.

One African leader is elected yearly to be the Special Guest of Honour for the event and this year the lot has fallen on President Kufuor.

President Kufuor, the release said, would use the visit to also hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Patrick Manning on issues of mutual interest and revive economic cooperation between Ghana and the Caribbean country.

From there, he would continue on the invitation of the Government of China to Beijing to participate in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games.

President Kufuor is expected back home on August 10.