[3] Informal contacts were initiated as early as 1956 when an unsuccessful proposal came from the Ghanaian Erick Nkrumah towards the Yugoslav Delegation at the United Nations to visit Yugoslavia[1] The proposal was not fesable for the delegation so it was rejected.

[1] On 24 November 1958 meeting of Trusteeship Council Ghana and Yugoslavia, together with India and Iraq, requested United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld to convene a Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly to consider the question of the future of the Trust Territories of British Cameroon and French Cameroon.

[3] President of Yugoslavia was the first foreign leader who was invited to address the Parliament of Ghana since independence in 1957.

[3] Yugoslav delegation gifted Nkrumah with a Yugoslav produced car Crvena zastava 1100, and his wife Fathia Nkrumah with a set of violet crystal plates.

[1] Folklore musical ensemble Tanec from Skopje, Socialist Republic of Macedonia visited Ghana in 1968.