Buhari to address 70th session of UN general assembly in New York

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.
According to a statement signed by the special
adviser to the President on media and publicity,
Buhari’s talks with the United Nations
Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, President
Barack Obama of the United States and other
world leaders and will centre on 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 President 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.