President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday depart for New York, United
States, to participate in the five-day 71st session United Nations
General Assembly (UNGA) beginning on Monday.
This is contained in a
statement issued in Abuja on Friday by the president’s Special Adviser
on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina.
The statement said that
the president would deliver Nigeria’s statement at the opening of the
General Debate of the Assembly on “The Sustainable Development Goals: A
Universal Push to Transform Our World.”
Adesina revealed that the
president would also attend a high-level summit to be hosted by the UN,
on “Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants’’.
“The summit, which
is the first of its kind organised by the General Assembly at the Heads
of State and Government level, is expected to come up with a blueprint
for a better international response to enhance protection of migrants
and refugees.’’
He also said that Buhari would deliver a keynote
address on “Taking Climate Action toward Sustainable Development in
Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin.”
The president’s aide disclosed
that leaders of member-countries of Lake Chad Basin would attend the
summit, organised by Nigerian government, to highlight the urgent need
to mobilise international response to the situation in the Chad Basin.
“Over nine million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in the Lake Chad Basin.”
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