By Hannah Dadzie
The Government of Ghana will host the 6th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Gulf of Guinea Commission on 6h August 2024, in Accra. The summit will be preceded by the meetings of the Council of Ministers on 5th August, 2024, and the Committee of Experts on 4th August, 2024, at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC).
The 6th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Gulf of Guinea Commission will be held under the theme “Building a Secure and Prosperous Gulf of Guinea Region for Sustainable Development”.
The Summit will assess the work of the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC) and propose measures for enhancing its overarching objective of cooperation among the States of the Gulf of Guinea region and the transformation of the sub-region into a zone of peace, security, and sustainable development.
The GGC constitutes a framework of consultation among the countries of the Gulf of Guinea for cooperation and development, as well as the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts that may arise from the delimitation of borders and the economic and commercial exploitation of natural resources within the territorial boundaries, particularly in the overlapping Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZS) of the States.
The Gulf of Guinea Commission was established by a treaty which was signed in Libreville, Gabon, on 3rd July, 2001. The Member States of the Commission are the Republic of Angola, Republic of Congo, Gabonese Republic, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Cameroon, Republic of Equatorial Guinea, and the Republic of Ghana.
