Buhari to address UN General Assembly Monday

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday leave
Nigeria for New York to attend the 70th session of the UN
General Assembly.
This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on
Tuesday by the president’s Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity, Femi Adesina.
Mr. Adesina said the president would hold series of
meetings and interactions with notable world leaders
there.
He said the president would hold deliberations with the
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, President Barack
Obama of the U.S. and President Francois Hollande of
France.
Mr. Adesina said the president would also hold
deliberations with 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.
Mr. Adesina said that the president’s talks with the world
leaders would mainly be on domestic developmental
issues, bilateral relations, the war against terrorism and
countering violent extremism.
He said the president would discuss the enhancement of
global security, peace-keeping operations, climate
change and the adoption of a post 2015 global
development agenda in the meetings.
“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.’’
President Buhari would also participate in 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.
Mr. Adesina said that President Buhari would participate
in the launching of an updated global health strategy for
women and children.
He said President Buhari would meet with former
President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates of the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown of
Britain.
Mr. Brown is the UN Special Envoy on Global Education
who is one of the main drivers of the Safe Schools
Initiative.
He stated that President Buhari would 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 and Trade and Investment.
Mr. Adesina said the president will deliver Nigeria’s
Statement to the 70th Session of the United Nations
General Assembly on Sept. 28.
It stated that the president would conclude his visit to
New York on September 29 and return Abuja on the same
day. (NAN)