UN General Assembly
2009

out of it, even though we admit that much more needs to be done if we are to achieve our objectives. Ghana cannot but commend the growing cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations. We call for its intensification to enable it to take advantage of the cooperative strength of the United Nations and regional organizations in a mutually complementary manner. Next year marks the fifteenth year since the adoption, at the Fourth World Conference on Women, of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action. In view of the huge gap between policy and practice and the unyielding progress in implementing that international convention on gender equality and the empowerment of women, it is our suggestion that we need to take a coherent, integrated and multisectoral approach to this problem. Over the years, Ghana has demonstrated its commitment to implementing in an accelerated manner the goals of the Beijing Platform for Action, and we have done so by adopting concrete administrative, legal and constitutional means. Our efforts have yielded some measure of success, as clearly testified to