Buhari off to US for talks with Obama, Ki-Moon, Cameron, Hollande, others
…To discuss on terrorism, global security, climate change with world leaders
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NIGERIA: PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday left Nigeria for New York, US to participate in the 70th session of the United Nations (UN) where he would meet world leaders to hold talks on terrorism and global security.
The President, who left Katsina for the UN General Assembly after Sallah celebration, is expected to engage in myriad of meetings and interactions, particularly with, amongst others, US President Barack Obama and the world body’s Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, who recently visited Nigeria.
“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,” the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, had said in a release on Wednesday.
“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,” Adesina said.
He added: “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.”
Adesina also added: “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,” the president’s spokesperson emphasised.
