President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in New York for the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly’s high-level meetings.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), President Buhari arrived at JF Kennedy International Airport in New York around 6.20 p.m. local time.
The president was greeted by Geoffrey Onyeama, the Minister of Foreign Affairs; Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations; and Dr. Uzoma Emenike, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, among others.
The theme for the 77th session which opened on Tuesday, Sept. 13 is: “A watershed moment: Transformative solutions to interlocking challenges.”
The war in Ukraine, the global energy crisis, climate action, and the end of the COVID-19 pandemic will be major topics of discussion at the 2022 UNGA.
On Monday, Buhari is expected to deliver Nigeria’s National Statement at the start of the High-Level Summit on Transforming Education and Leaders Roundtable.
Similarly, he will make a statement during the summit’s Thematic Session four on Digital Transformation of Education.
Buhari will attend the UNGA General Debate opening ceremony on Tuesday, where the President of the General Assembly, Csaba Krös, and UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, will declare the General Debate open.
He is expected to attend the opening ceremony as the Head of the Nigerian Delegation, along with Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Prof. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, and other top Nigerian delegates.
He will also make a statement at Transforming Education in Africa: Past, Present, and Future on the same day.
On the second day of the General Debate, Wednesday, Buhari will be the first speaker to address the General Assembly.
During the morning session, he will deliver Nigeria’s statement to other world leaders around 9 a.m. (around 2 p.m. Nigerian time).
He will also attend the meeting of the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change, as well as Africa’s New Public Health Order: Rejuvenating the Global Health Security Agenda.
Buhari will also attend a reception hosted by US President Joe Biden at the American Museum of Natural History.
On Thursday, the President is scheduled to attend a bilateral meeting of the Nigeria International Economic Partnership Forum as well as high-level meetings on the Sahel region.
Buhari will also attend the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government’s Extraordinary Session.
The Nigerian President will attend a High Level Breakfast Meeting on Reinvigorating Multilateralism and Achieving Comprehensive Reform of the UN Security Council Commemorating the 15th Anniversary of L.69 on Friday.
Similarly, on the same day, he will attend the official launch of Nigeria’s Integrated National Financing Framework.
