Nigeria was on Thursday appointed as the Acting President to
preside over the 81st Plenary Meeting of UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters.
Reports say that Nigeria’s Ambassador/Permanent
Representative to the UN, Prof. Tijjani Bande, presided over the 193-member
body.
It was gathered that Bande’s presidency at the Plenary
Meeting happened just nine days after he presented his credentials to the UN
Secretary-General António Guterres.
Nigeria was appointed one of the 21 Vice Presidents of the
General Assembly on June 13, 2016 at the 71st session of the General Assembly.
Bande presided over the General Assembly following the
absence of the President of the Assembly, Peter Thomson, who was on an official
travel to the Central African Republic.
It was also reported that the opportunity for Nigeria to
preside over the 193-member body became possible following the assumption of
duty of the country’s Permanent Representative.
Bande had told NAN that the goodwill Nigeria enjoyed since
his assumption of duty last week was an indications that the international
community had keenly awaited the appointment of Nigeria’s ambassador and
Permanent Representative to the UN more than a year after the last ambassador
completed her assignment and returned home.
“I intend to leverage on this and continue to leverage on
Nigeria’s image in positive light,” Bande said.
The 81st Plenary
Meeting of the General Assembly under Nigeria’s Acting Presidency, considered
three reports.
The first report was ‘Appointment of Members of the Advisory
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Question: report of the Fifth
Committee’, including the appointment of Mr Olivier Myard of France as a member
of the committee from May 11, 2017 to Dec. 31, 2019.
The second report was ‘Appointment of Members of the
Committee on Contributions: report of the Fifth Committee’, with the
appointment of Ms Zhang Wei of China as a member beginning May 11 2017 and
ending Dec. 31, 2017.
The third report considered was the ‘Organisation of Work,
Adoption of the Agenda and Allocation of Items: Appointment of Members of the
International Civil Service Commission: report of the Fifth Committee’, with
the appointment of Mr Vladimir Storozhev of the Russian Federation as a member
effective May 11, 2017 to Dec. 31, 2020.
Bande, subsequently, after the consideration of the three
reports and recommendations, adjourned the Plenary Meeting.
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