STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
PRESIDENT BUHARI TO DISCUSS TERRORISM AND GLOBAL SECURITY WITH WORLD LEADERS IN NEW YORK, ADDRESS 70TH SESSION OF UNGA
President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Nigeria for New York on Thursday for a series of meetings and interactions with notable world leaders within and on the sidelines of the main events of the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
On the agenda of President Buhari's talks, deliberations and interactions with the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, President Barack Obama of the United States, President Francois Hollande of France, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Vladmir Putin of Russia, President Xi Jinping of China, Prime Minister Narenda Modi of India and others will be domestic developmental issues, bilateral relations, the war against terrorism, countering violent extremism, the enhancement of global security, peace-keeping operations, climate change and the adoption of a post 2015 global development agenda.
President Buhari who will be accompanied by the Governors of Sokoto, Kaduna and Niger States, the National Security Adviser and the Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defence, Finance, Health, Industry, Trade and Investment, will deliver Nigeria's Statement to the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, September 28.
President Buhari is also scheduled to address the World Leaders Summit on Violent Extremism to which he was personally invited by Mr. Ban Ki Moon during the Secretary-General's recent visit to Nigeria.
Also on the President busy schedule in New York are a meeting of the African Union's Peace and Security Council, a High-Level Roundtable on South-South Cooperation organised by President Xi Jinping of China and the United Nations, and participation in the launching of an updated global health strategy for women and children.
On President Buhari's schedule too are meetings with former President Bill Clinton of the United States, Mr. Bill Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which is assisting Nigeria in several areas including polio eradication, and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain, the United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education who is one of the main drivers of the Safe Schools Initiative.
The President will concluded his visit to New York on Tuesday, September 29 and leave the city for Abuja on the same day.
Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
September 22, 2015
He will return on the 29th,just in time for the deadline!..LOL
Waka waka baby, oh yea, wuru wuru baby, oh yea.....
ReplyDeleteWhat do I know? I'm just singing a sing.
Lol
Delete*song
DeleteJourney oh, Journey oh. Abi no be so Yemi Alade sing am? (cough) Ok na johnny.
ReplyDeleteSee as u dey sing like me.
DeleteAlways traveling. Mtchewww. So governors from other states cannot accompany him? Rochas or Oshio baba? Shey they r APC?
ReplyDeleteJourney mercies
DeleteThis man Na wa
DeleteUna see the thing una vote for?
Kikikikoikikiko
We siddon here dey Wait!!!
@Sai baba
@Galore
A traveling president.
ReplyDeleteStop travelling baba and fix this country.
ReplyDeleteNa so so excursion oga just dey do since he climb that seat. Ok we are watching in 3D.
ReplyDeleteIt is well
ReplyDeleteCan this man sit at a place for once? Nawah!
ReplyDeleteBaba is adressing the pple that voted him in and pledging his loyalty na. Carry go but you for kuku stay there dey rule the sleeping giant called naija naaa.
ReplyDeletemaybe he will announce ministers when he gets there becos he only unveils his plans when he travels outside the country
ReplyDeleteJourney Mercies Sir!
ReplyDeleteMay u go n return in Peace.Amen.
Bon voyage!
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