Parliament resolves on six anti-terrorism conventions

Ghana’s Parliament Thursday passed six resolutions giving government the authority to adopt and implement six conventions that provides the legal framework for checking international terrorism.

They are the International convention for the suppression of terrorist bombings, Ratification of the AU convention on the prevention and combating of terrorism and International Convention for the suppression of financing of terrorism.

The rest are the Protocol for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of fixed platforms located on the continental shelf, Convention for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of Maritime Navigation and the International Convention for the physical protection of nuclear material.

The House also passed resolutions for the conduct of developing and producing the Tano Oil Fields, Offshore Ghana and the Petroleum Exploration and Production operations in Blocks Offshore Deepwater Keta Basin.

The Keta project would be undertaken by The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Devon Energy (Ghana) Limited and Encana International (Ghana) Limited.