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 AMBASSADOR JAMES VICTOR GBEHO

  

Ambassador James Victor Gbeho is a retired career Diplomat of the Ghana Foreign Service who is currently an Advisor to the President of Ghana on Foreign Affairs.

He worked in the then Ghana Foreign and Commonwealth Service and later the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served in various capacities at Ghana’s Diplomatic Missions abroad as well as in the Ministry in Accra, Ghana.

He has been posted over the years as a diplomat to the Ghana Missions in China, India, Nigeria, New York (UN/USA), Germany, United Kingdom and Geneva (UN/Switzerland).

Ambassador Gbeho was posted as Deputy High Commissioner to the Court of St. James (U.K.) in 1972 until 1976. He was later appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ghana to the European Offices of the United Nations in Geneva, with concurrent accreditation to UNIDO in Vienna, Austria, from 1978 to 1980. He was appointed Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations in New York in 1980 and served in that post until June 1990. He was also concurrently accredited, for some of that period, to Cuba, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.

During that same period, Ambassador Gbeho held, among others, the following important posts at the United Nations:
 

a)       Chairman of the First Committee (Political and Security).

b)       Chairman of Fourth Committee (Decolonisation).

c)        Chairman of the Disarmament Committee.

d)       Member of the Anti-Apartheid Committee and Chairman of the Sub-Committee on the Implementation of Sanctions Against Apartheid South Africa.

e)       Chairman of the Executive Council of the International Convention Against Apartheid in Sports.

Ambassador James Victor Gbeho also held the following positions during his tenure in Geneva as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the European Offices of the United Nations from 1978 to 1980:

1.        Chairman of  UNCTAD IV’s Committee on Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries (ECDC) held in Manila, Philippines in 1979, and

2.        Chairman of the Geneva - based UNCTAD’s Preparatory Committee for the establishment of the Common Fund for Commodities, 1980-1982.

 He was also concurrently accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria.

In addition, Ambassador Gbeho was elected to the United Nations Security Council from 1986-1987 during which period he served twice as President of the Council.

Ambassador Gbeho has also served on or led many delegations of Ghana to Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, Summit Meetings of the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM), Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG), Non-Aligned Summit and Ministerial Meetings. He has attended and still attends several Ministerial and Summit Meetings of the Organization of African Unity, African Union (AU), and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

On return to Ghana in 1990, Ambassador Gbeho was appointed, at various times, Director of the Non-Aligned Movement Secretariat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of State Protocol and also Acting Chief Director  of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He was appointed the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General in Somalia from 1994 to 1995 and between 1995 and 1996 Special Representative of the Chairman of ECOWAS in Liberia. In Liberia, he exercised political oversight and responsibility necessary for the implementation of the agreements reached at the Akosombo Talks and the subsequent Accra Clarification Talks for the return of peace to war-torn Liberia. In that respect, Ambassador Gbeho worked closely with the then ECOWAS Secretariat and ECOMOG.  He also led the ECOWAS Team that negotiated the Status of Forces Agreement with the Government of Charles Taylor in 1996.

In December 1997, Ambassador Gbeho became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ghana, after a brief service as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

On leaving office in 2001, after his political party lost the General Elections, Ambassador Gbeho was elected Member of Parliament for the Anlo Constituency, in which capacity he served until 2004.

From 2005 to 2008 Ambassador Gbeho worked on occasion in the offices of Flt-Lt. Jerry John Rawlings as the former President’s Special Assistant.

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