Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the
president of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), says whoever is denied
education is denied almost everything.
Muhammad-Bande, who is Nigeria’s
permanent representative to the United Nations, committed to poverty
eradication, quality education, and inclusion as his top priorities at the
helm.
Speaking in his first major
interview with the UN News, the new president said “people are born into
certain position. It’s only education that equalizes everything and everyone”.
“Education is really a complex
matter. Whoever is denied an education is denied almost everything,” he said.
“Look at the connection between
education and employment, education and equality, education and a sense of your
rights, and around the globe, we expect with more access to education, better
curricula, we are likely to have less hate, we are likely to have better
understanding, we are likely to have a better economy, we are likely to have
more equality.”
When asked about what he would
like his legacy to be at the end of his tenure, the political science expert
said he would seek to make things easier for his successor.
“I think I would not want to give
a broad view of what to do other than to say that we would want to know that as
a team, and part of a team, we have pushed those matters of importance to the
world, in a fair and transparent manner.
“And that whoever comes after us
will find it easier to address some of these issues going forward.”
SPEAKS ON BEING UNGA PRESIDENT
WHEN UN IS 75
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| MarÃa Fernanda Espinosa Garcés after handing over the gavel to Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, flanked by António Guterres. |
Muhammad-Bande said there is a lot of excitement around the UN at 75, but he hopes the anniversary will remind the UN of its purpose, promise and limitations.
“We have had a few areas in which
we didn’t do as well concerning, for example, genocide in Rwanda. There are
many other areas in which, for example, norms concerning health issues and
pandemics, issues relating to agriculture, issues relating to
counter-terrorism, there is an emergent view, and, some constraints concerning
the need not only to work together, but also (take) action on the ground on
these matters.
“There’s a lot of excitement
around the system and outside the United Nations itself concerning the need to
mark this 75th anniversary as important in the history of the Organization and
of the world and of politics in general.
“It should remind us as to the
purposes of the Organization, its limitation and its promise and this promise
is what we should all keep in mind.
“It is a celebration – to
celebrate multilateralism and also to look at forces that hinder our full
achievement of multilateral approaches to solving some of the problems.”
The UNGA president is a polical
science expert with a B.Sc from Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria, an MA from
Boston University in the United States, and a Ph.D from the University of
Toronto, Canada.
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