Vice President of Ghana visits DCCI

The delegation were received by H.E. Abdurrahman Al-Mutaiwee, DCCI Director General and Sultan Lootah, Director of Business Promotion. The Vice President was escorted by Mr. Rasheed Bawa, the newly-appointed Ghanaian ambassador to the GCC countries based in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Selevety Parker Allotey, and the Ghanaian Charge d'affaires to the GCC countries.

Al-Mutaiwee welcomed his guest and wished him together with his delegation a nice stay and success in Dubai. During the interview, the bilateral ties were discussed between Dubai and Ghana and ways of developing and enhancing these ties. Also discussed was the UAE Trade Exhibition in Ghana to be held in April 2006 and then holding a Roadshow in Senegal about trading and investment opportunities in Dubai.

"We as a matter of fact had selected Ghana and Senegal in Africa thanks to the political and economic stabilities the two countries enjoy, which would constitute an important factor in setting up trading, economic and investment projects. Being there, would be a useful experience and unique economic event towards opening new markets for UAE products and services, as the exhibition would provide businessmen and investors with an excellent opportunity to developing their trading ties with their counterparts in Ghana and Senegal, and a benchmark targeting the Western African markets whose population is more than 250 million people," said Al-Mutaiwee.

Al-Mutaiwee briefed his Ghanaian guest on the key role the DCCI plays in enhancing the economic movement in Dubai and supporting the businessmen's competitiveness in their drive to developing their activities, and providing investors with opportunities to enabling them to effectively communicate with the business circles locally, regionally and internationally thanks to Dubai's strategic location as a commercial center playing a vital role and pushing the companies operating in Dubai to enter huge and promising markets regionally and internationally.

The Vice President of Ghana, expressed his country's interest in enhancing economic and trading ties with the UAE, in general and Dubai, in particular through holding such exhibitions in Ghana due to the strategic location Ghana enjoys that plays a key role as a benchmark towards African countries.

"We are fully committed to benefiting from the leading experience of DCCI and the ways it adopts in servicing its members and enhancing the trade exchange between Dubai and different countries, and broadening the investment opportunities in all trading, economic and real estate sectors in order for us to push forward the trading and economic movement and enhancing the growth at all levels to ensuring more development and progress in our country," he said.

It is worth noting that the non-oil trade between Dubai and Ghana in 2004 was around AED 267 million where Dubai's re-exports to Ghana were around AED 202.6 million, while Dubai's imports from Ghana were AED 46.2 million in the same year.