The Vice President of the Council of State, Mercedes López Acea, and the delegation that she leads were received at the "Kotoka" International Airport of Accra by the acting National President of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Freddie Blay.
In the homeland of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the Cuban leader will hold meetings with the country's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. Also, she will meet with the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Michael Ocquaye; the former President Jerry John Rawlings and the current NPP leader.
The Cuban Vice President will pay tribute to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in the Mausoleum that perpetuates his memory, and will hold meetings with a representation of the members of the Solidarity Campaign with Cuba, with members of the Cuban Medical Brigade that provides services in the country, as well as with a representation of Cubans living in Ghana.
Cuba and Ghana established diplomatic relations on 23rd December, 1959, as a result of the historic meeting held by the then Prime Ministers, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, at the Theresa Hotel, in the Afro-American neighborhood of Harlem, in New York.
The official visit to Ghana is part of a tour for four African countries, and constitutes a new expression of Cuba's willingness to continue strengthening its historic ties with the countries and peoples of that continent, whose organization, the African Union, for the ninth consecutive time has claimed the end of the criminal blockade imposed for more than five decades to the Cuban people by the United States of America.
The delegation includes the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ana Teresita González, the Ambassador of Cuba to Ghana, Pedro L. Despaigne González and Ambassador Sidenio Acosta Aday, official from the Sub-Saharan African Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.