The Diplomat
The State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Latin America and the Caribbean, Cristina Gallach, delivered yesterday in Accra to the Ministry of the Interior of Ghana material destined to reinforce the border control of that country.
Specifically, these are cars, quads, computers and other material with which the Government wishes to support the “excellent work” that Ghana is carrying out in the protection of its borders, something that, according to Gallach, “is not easy” since the country is located in the “border area” with the Sahel, where there is a significant jihadist threat.
Gallach is on a tour of Ghana and Guinea-Conakry to deepen trade relations and cooperation in security matters with which she seeks to advance in an “effective and orderly” management of migratory flows and to promote the presence of Spanish companies in the area.
“Spain- explained the State Secretary- has been committed for some time to the fact that with better equipment they can better carry out border control tasks”.
Gallach added that the Ghanaian Minister of the Interior, Ambrose Dery, with whom she met, has a very similar approach to the problem of migration to that of Spain and shares the need to deal with the threat by combining economic, social and security aspects.
The Secretary of State also met, between Thursday and Friday, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, as well as with women leaders of Ghanaian society; and with the Minister of Trade, Alan John Kyerematen, with a view to “seeking economic and commercial opportunities”.
According to Gallach, for Ghana, Spain is the second country of destination for its exports and the sixth customer for its imports, which translates into an “intense economic relationship”.
He also had a meeting with Spanish businessmen in the country, with whom an estimated 2,600 companies have had some kind of business dealings. “It seems fundamental to us to support them, that we listen to the opportunities they believe there are and that from the institutional point of view we create the mechanisms to develop a deeper presence,” he said.
“This is a very important country in West Africa and in the whole continent and it exercises a very deep economic leadership,” Gallach said, stressing that it has “a very vibrant economy” along with “great institutional stability.”
