President Kufuor returns home from Guinea

President John Agyekum Kufuor returned home on Thursday from Conakry, Guinea after attending a summit of the Heads of State and Government of the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ).

The Summit organised under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to create a second Monetary Zone in the sub-region discussed the timetable for the establishment of WAMZ and achievement of the convergence criteria for the establishment of the West African Central Bank.

President Kufuor was accompanied by the Foreign Minister, Mr. Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, Mr Daniel Kufuor Osei, Secretary to the President, Alhaji Moctar Musah Bamba, Deputy Minister of Presidential Affairs, Government Spokesman, Mr. Kwabena Agyepong and officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Minister of Information and Presidential Affairs and the Greater Accra Regional Minister Sheikh Ibrahim C. Quaye met him on arrival.

Mr Agyepong told newsmen that President Kufuor made a brief stopover in Abidjan on his way home for private discussions with the Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo.