President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja
Sunday to Washington DC on a four-day official
visit during which he will hold high-level talks
with President Barack Obama and other senior
officials of the United States government.
Topmost on the agenda of President Buhari's
talks with President Obama and United States
Government officials will be measures to
strengthen and intensify bilateral and international
cooperation against terrorism in Nigeria and
West-Africa.
President Buhari who will meet with President
Obama at the White House on Monday, July 20,
will later hold further discussions with the
Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of
Staff, General Martin Dempsey and the Deputy
Secretary of Defence, Robert Work on military
and defence cooperation.
The President will also meet with Vice President
Joe Biden and confer with the US Attorney-
General, Loretta Lynch, the US Secretary of
Treasury, Jack Lew, the US Secretary of
Commerce, Penny Pritzker and the US Trade
representative, Michael Froman on United States
support for his administration's war against
corruption as well as fresh measures to boost
Nigeria-United States trade relations.
The President, who will be received by the United
States Secretary of State at the State Department
in Washington DC, will later hold meetings with
the United States Senate and Congressional
Committees on Foreign Relations, as well as the
Black Caucus of the United States House of
Representatives.
Before leaving Washington DC, President Buhari
will address the United States Chamber of
Commerce and Corporate Council for Africa.
The President, who will be accompanied by the
Governors of Imo, Nasarawa, Edo, Borno and Oyo
States as well as the Governor of the Central
Bank of Nigeria and Permanent Secretaries of the
Federal Ministries of Defence, Foreign Affairs,
Industry, Trade and Investment, will also host an
interactive session with Nigerians in the American
Diaspora.
The US trip will also afford President Buhari the
opportunity of a reunion with members of the
American War College Class of 1980 in which he
was a distinguished participant.
He is due back in Abuja on Thursday, July 23.
0 comments:
Post a Comment