It is for this reason that Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Alassane Ouattara, President of Cote d’Ivoire, on Monday, March 26, 2018, held a consultation devoted to the cocoa economy, and, subsequently, signed the “Abidjan Declaration.”

Reading out the communiqué, the Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen, who accompanied President Akufo-Addo to the bilateral discussions, stated that the Declaration is aimed at “better defending the interests of cocoa producers, as well as the economies of both countries.”
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