UN General Assembly
2014

a fully fledged middle-income country. The coming year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, which was held in Beijing in 1995. I would like to note with pride that it will also mark the fortieth anniversary of Ghana’s establishment of the National Council on Women and Development, which has since been renamed the Department of Gender. Ghana has a long-held commitment to the betterment of women’s lives, and my Administration has made it a priority to carry on with that tradition. In fact, much, if not all, of what we are doing falls directly in line with the areas of concern enumerated in the Beijing Platform for Action of the World Conference. My Administration boasts one of the highest number of women appointed to public office in the history of Ghana. Seven of our Cabinet ministers are women, as are the holders of several senior public service posts, and I hope that the fact that they are too numerous to list is an indication that we are reaching towards the ideal.