Shettima to lead Nigerian delegation to UNGA 2025

By Favour Ulebor, Abuja

Vice President Senator Kashim Shettima volition pb Nigeria’s delegation to the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), scheduled to unfastened connected September 23, 2025, successful New York, United States.

In a property connection issued connected Saturday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Vice President volition beryllium joined by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, alongside different Ministers and elder authorities officials.

The ministry explained that Nigeria’s information would supply an accidental to prosecute successful planetary sermon connected peace, security, development, clime change, and different pressing planetary challenges.

According to the ministry, Nigeria’s engagement volition beryllium guided by its strategical priorities, focusing connected economical growth, planetary bid and security, quality rights, humanitarian assistance, justness and planetary law, disarmament, and practice against terrorism, cause trafficking, and transgression prevention.

Vice President Shettima is scheduled to code the General Assembly connected September 24, wherever helium volition contiguous Nigeria’s nationalist statement.

His remarks volition item the country’s contributions to planetary peace, determination security, and measures to tackle clime change.

Beyond the General Debate, Nigeria volition besides enactment successful respective high-level broadside events. These see the International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine, co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia; a roundtable connected energy, lipid and gas, and information successful the Gulf of Guinea; and the Forward Africa Leaders Symposium hosted by the African Peer Review Mechanism, which volition absorption connected integer transformation, fintech, and AfCFTA’s integer commercialized argumentation framework.

The ministry stressed that Nigeria’s information astatine UNGA 2025 would reenforce its committedness to multilateralism and planetary solidarity successful achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

This year’s league of the UNGA is themed “Better Together: 80 Years and More for Peace, Development and Human Rights.” The taxable underscores planetary committedness to inclusivity, cooperation, and the pursuit of shared solutions, portion reaffirming the UN’s relation successful fostering peace, development, and respect for quality rights.

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