Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, will join other world leaders at the High-Level Segment of the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which will hold from 20th – 26th September, 2022 in New York, United States.
Buhari, will take his turn to deliver his Statement on Wednesday, 21st September, 2022 at the event with the overall theme “A Watershed Moment: Transformative Solutions to Interlocking Challenges”.
In addition, the President will be participating at various side-events as well as hold bilateral meetings with some world leaders.
This was contained in a statement signed by Francisca K. Omayuli (Mrs), the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to Omayulu, Nigeria will seize the auspicious occasion to demonstrate her support and commitment to multilateral efforts geared towards addressing current and emerging global challenges including climate change, terrorism, food insecurity and the COVID-19 Pandemic as well as other factors militating against achieving the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Furthermore, she added that Nigeria will maximize the opportunity to seek global support and deepen engagements with other Member States and International Development Agencies in her priority areas such as the economy, security, infrastructural development, job creation and human capital development.
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