President Muhammadu Buhari will today address the 77th United Nations General Assembly, delivering Nigeria’s statement.
Buhari will be the first speaker at the occasion which is the second day of the General Debate, at about 9 a.m. (around 2 p.m. Nigerian time), during the morning session.
The General Debate of the 77th session of the General Assembly started at the UN headquarters on Tuesday in New York.
Buhari was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, and Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN, Prof. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande.
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Others are Chief of Staff of the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari; Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed and Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq.
No fewer than 150 world leaders are attending the largest diplomatic gathering after two years of virtual and hybrid summits.
At the occasion, Buhari will also the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change meeting and Africa’s New Public Health Order: Rejuvenating the Global Health Security Agenda.
Similarly, Buhari will attend a reception by the U.S. President Joe Biden at American Museum of Natural History.
On Thursday, the president is expected to attend a bilateral meeting on Nigeria International Economic Partnership Forum and High-Level meetings on the Sahel.
Also, Buhari will attend the Extraordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government.
On Friday, the Nigerian president will attend High Level Breakfast Meeting on Reinvigorating Multilateralism and Achieving Comprehensive Reform of the UN Security Council Commemoration of 15 years of L.69.
Similarly, he will attend the official Launch of Nigeria’s Integrated National Financing Framework that same day.
Source: NAN
