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206:"Ghana recognizes that it may be necessary for United States forces to use the radio spectrum. United States forces shall be allowed to operate its own telecommunication systems (as telecommunication is defined in the 1992 Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union). This shall include the right to utilize such means and services as required to ensure full ability to operate telecommunication systems, and the right to use all necessary radio spectrum for this purpose. Use of the radio spectrum shall be free of cost to United States forces."
201:"Ghana hereby provides unimpeded access to and use of agreed facilities and areas to United States forces, United States contractors, and others as mutually agreed. Such agreed facilities and area: or portions thereof, provided by Ghana shall be designated as either for exclusive use by United States forces or to be jointly used by United States forces and Ghana. Ghana shall also provide access to and use of a runway that meets the requirements of United States forces"
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221:"United States forces are hereby authorized to control entry to agreed facilities and areas that having been provided for exclusive use by United States forces, and to coordinate entry with the authorities of Ghana at agreed facilities and areas provided for joint use by United States force and Ghana, for purposes of safety and security."
655:" Ghanaians may love Americans but not to the extent of living with foreign troops on such a scale. Ghanaians have enough foreigners dominating their economic and social life. Adding foreign troops to the discomfort would be a bit too much. Ghanaians have felt stateless before in my lifetime. Let's not go there again ".
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read in between the lines, this agreement was not signed with Mali, Niger, Mauritania or even Libya, the countries in crisis. Senegal and Ghana are their targets and they are the most stable countries on the continent. As I have pointed out, is basically because of the natural resources on the continent
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We don't want a permanent military base in our country...so they can advise themselves and pull out of Ghana. Ghana should not be one of the countries they are considering this kind of agreement. We will employ all channels within the law to put pressure on
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Since 1998, we've signed agreements with the US. The problem is that, if you compare that quality of the agreement that we have with the US to those that other countries have with the US, ours is not of the requisite quality. So the political elites must acknowledge that they have not done right by
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The US was worried about much in role China has played in Africa in terms of pumping money into the continent and controlling its natural resources. At the face value, the argument is that they are trying to strengthen our military, strengthen the government in order to fight terrorism, but if you
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The most contentious clause is the one that states that "he United States Forces may undertake construction activities, and make alterations and improvements to, agreed facilities and areas." This was largely interpreted by the opposition party and security experts as a request for setting up a
216:"United States forces and United States contractors may undertake construction activities on, and make alterations and improvements to, agreed facilities and areas. United States forces may carry out construction works and other services with military personnel and civilian personnel."
211:"Ghana shall accord to military personnel and civilian personnel the privileges, exemptions, and immunities equivalent to those accorded to the administrative and technical staff of a diplomatic mission under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961."
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The opposition party, the
National Democratic Congress, registered their displeasure at some of the terms of the Agreement which give their US counterparts unfettered access to Ghana's resources. Among some of the US Department of Defense requests from the
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for ratification. It was brought before the House for consideration and ratification after the joint-committee on
Defense and Interior Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs of Parliament gave it a green light. The minority leader
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stated on national television that the military agreement did not include approval for the construction of a future military base, and further added that his government will not consider any such request.
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have had a cordial bilateral relationship since Ghana's independence on 6 March 1957. Ghana has cooperated with the U.S. in a wide variety of fields, including education,
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