President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday leave for Washington DC in the United States of America to attend the 4th International Nuclear Security Summit which begins on Thursday.
At the summit, Buhari will be joining American President Barack Obama and about 60 other world leaders as well as heads of international organizations.
A statement signed by the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, disclosed that at plenary sessions of the summit, Buhari will insist that while Nigeria will continue to sustain its commitment to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, world powers must respect the right of other countries to the peaceful use of nuclear energy for development purposes.
“He will reaffirm Nigeria’s stance that international efforts to ensure greater security of nuclear materials should maintain a balance between nuclear non-proliferation obligations and the indisputable right of Nigeria and other countries to harness nuclear energy and technology for socio-economic development,” Adesina said.
The presidential spokesman noted that at a meeting in Abuja earlier this month, President Buhari told the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr Yukiya Amano, that Nigeria will welcome greater support from the agency for its aspiration to begin the generation of electricity with nuclear energy.
On the sidelines of the nuclear summit, Buhari is also scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with other participating heads of government and high-ranking United States government officials.
Listed on Buhari’s delegation for the summit are Governors Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State, and Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State; the minister of foreign affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, the national security adviser, Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno (rtd) and the director-general of Nigeria’s Nuclear Regulatory Agency, Prof Lawrence Anikwe Dim.
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