Obama stresses U.S. ties with Ghana

President Barack Obama met today with President of Ghana, John Evans Atta Mills, and described a model for the considered second-largest economy in West Africa.

The president praised the performance of the African country on issues such as democracy, foreign investment, productivity and food security, while highlighting business cooperation between both countries.

The president criticized the tendency to focus only on the problems of Africa and meant that should also refer to the positive cases.

Ghana is still a good story in history, Obama said after meeting at the White House with Atta Mills.

Meanwhile, Ghanaian President thanked Washington for several programs of cooperation and pledged to expand bilateral agenda by increasing trade and economic ties as well as a series of bilateral, regional and multilateral.

Before the presidential and parliamentary elections of December in Ghana, President Atta Mills said that "will ensure peace before, during and after the elections."

The Ghanaian president will opt for a second term of four years.

In February, the United States completed the first assignment of an aid package worth 547 million dollars for road construction, public works and agricultural projects in that country.

A second allocation, no date agreed yet, expected to address energy production, digital media Bloomberg said.

The Democratic president in July 2009 he traveled with his wife Michelle to Accra, the Ghanaian capital.

Ghana was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from United Kingdom on March 6, 1957.

On Tuesday last, Atta Mills celebrated 55 years of that event.