President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to address world leaders at the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting on Monday. The annual high-level general debate of the UNGA is slated to commence on September 18, 2023. Some of the issues on the front burner include climate change, poverty and food insecurity, wars and humanitarian needs, as well as deepening inequality.
The General Assembly is the main legislative body of the United Nations; and in his maiden address to world leaders, President Tinubu will speak on the first day. He is slated as the 14th speaker out of the 20 world leaders to speak on the first day and would be the 5th African leader to mount the platform for his five to 15 minutes presentation, after the presidents of South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Mozambique.
The president, through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, had directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to freeze the processing visas for all government officials seeking to travel to New York for this year's UNGA's scheduled activities. Also speaking, an Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Abubakar Kari said the directive was in order and commendable."Over the years, Nigeria stormed the UNGA with the largest contingent, comprising mainly persons who had no business being there, but to whom UNGA was an opportunity to jet out and unwind --like some jamboree," he said.
Having served as a diplomat under Nigeria's democratic dispensation, the ex-diplomat said several governors who may find it challenging to meet with the president in Nigeria find ways to meet with him abroad."Some of them travel under the cover of delegation," he said. "Ideally, it should be a Ministry of Foreign Affairs issue and only two to three departments are involved: the first and second UN departments and the multilateral department. These are the principal actors who are in charge of all the issues to be discussed at the Assembly," he said.
He said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have the director of UN department and the director, multilateral, as well as specialists on issues that would be discussed.
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