Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung@ 40 in Ghana As Ghana celebrates five successful elections since 1992, a feat which has won the acclamation of the international community and President Barrack Obama, we cannot forget the singular contribution of the GJA and the FES to free and fair elections in Ghana. From 1992 and for every election, the FES supported the GJA to hold workshops nationwide for journalists on political and elections reporting and further sponsored the publication of proceedings of the seminars into easy to read manuals which have positively shaped Ghanaian journalists in their general coverage of elections and politics as a whole. For its numerous contributions, the GJA under my Presidency recognised the FES for partnering the association to create enabling conditions for press freedom and the practice of journalism in Ghana during its Annual Awards Ceremony in 1995. The FES surely deserved that recognition. In the struggle for press freedom in Ghana many individuals and organisation, as I stated in the introduction played various roles that have brought us this far, but the FES by recognising the strategic role of professional bodies in the promotion of a free and responsible press and by helping the GJA, the umbrella association of all Ghanaian journalists to reach its present status deserves the highest commendation. As a General Secretary and President of the GJA at rather very difficult times when the GJA with so little championed the struggle for press freedom in Ghana, I know very well the heights we have reached today and can confidently and boldly state that the FES has been the GJA's major partner in the struggle for press freedom in Ghana. But let it also be said that in its work with the press, the FES has also supported vital media organisations like the National Media Commission since it started operations in 1992 and through its sponsorship of programmes for the labour movement and other institutions in civil society helped to broaden the frontiers of free speech and freedom of expression in Ghana. 41