The federal authorities on Tuesday requested for america' assist for its membership of the G20 and a seat on the United Nations Safety Council.
President Bola Tinubu made the request on Tuesday throughout a bilateral assembly with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the Abuja Presidential Villa.
At a joint press convention after the bilateral talks, Nigerian Overseas Minister Yusuf Tuggar mentioned the discussions bordered on agriculture, meals safety, prescription drugs, safety and synthetic intelligence.
Tuggar argued that Nigeria, as Africa's largest financial system, deserves to signify the African voice within the UN Safety Council as 60 p.c of resolutions handed by the UN Safety Council are Africa-related.
“It is usually vital to notice that President Tinubu raised the difficulty of Nigeria's membership and participation within the G20 and the United Nations Safety Council,” he mentioned.
Tuggar additionally disclosed that the bilateral talks will embrace remaining choices on different points together with the upcoming Nigeria-US Binational Fee between March 11 and 13, 2024.
“We’re all conscious that Nigeria is probably the most populous nation on the African continent. It has the most important financial system and due to this fact the President will leverage Nigeria's 4D international coverage agenda, specifically democracy, improvement, diaspora and demography.
“We think about it needed and acceptable that Nigeria be represented in these decision-making our bodies, as many as 60 p.c of the resolutions adopted by the UN Safety Council relate to Africa in a method or one other, so Africa have to be represented” , he added.
In September 2022, Tinubu participated within the G-20 Summit in New Delhi, India.
The G-20, also called the Group of 20, is an intergovernmental summit consisting of 19 nations and the European Union. It goals to handle key points associated to the worldwide financial system, resembling worldwide monetary stability, local weather change mitigation and sustainable improvement.
The Group consists of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, america and the European Union.
