President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday arrived Incheon Airport, South Korea to attend the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul where global safety and how to shield nuclear materials from terror groups will be discussed.
Mr Jonathan who arrived the airport at 8.20pm Korean time (about 12.30pm Nigerian time) and was received by the Nigerian Delegation in the country led by the Ambassador Desmond Akawo, the Ambassador of Nigeria to Korea was accompanied by his wife Dame Patience, the Delta state governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan and the governor of Taraba state governor, Danbaba Suntai.
The other officials in the President’s entourage are the Ministers for Power, Barth Nnaji, Science and Technology, Ita Ewa Henshaw, Housing, Ama Pepple and Transport, Senator Idris Umar.
Mr Jonathan opened the Nigerian-Korea Investment and business forum at the Korean Chamber of Commerce building before heading for the opening ceremony of the Nuclear Security summit in Seoul which is largely restricted to 56 heads of State and three private companies.
Already, the United States of America’s President, Barrack Obama and most of the Heads of State expected at the event have arrived South Korea ahead of the Security summit which will hold at the Conference Exhibition Centre (CEOX), a centre adjudged to having the highest level of security screening and alert.
Journalists accredited to cover the event are restricted to the International Media Centre while roads to the venue are to be closed to traffic through the duration of the event. The Colour of accreditation cards automatically screen off those not expected to pass certain points.
Mr Jonathan will devote the entire Tuesday to talks on nuclear safety and how to protect nuclear materials from getting into the wrong hands which will pose greater threat to the world.
However, the Nuclear Industry Summit which held earlier agreed to de-emphasise processing Highly enriched uranium for civilian purposes but to concentrate technology on even reversing from High grade to low grade enriched Uranium and to screen off civilian access to grades that were not for civilian purposes.
They also agreed to empower any new entrant into the nuclear class who seeks their assistance and after meeting the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) standards and prescriptions.
Mr Jonathan will on Wednesday attend breakfast meeting with the Nigerian community in South Korea where he is expected to brief them on efforts by his administration to lift Nigeria through policy implementation to a developed economy by building infrastructure and solicit their support to attain development in their various areas of competence.
He will thereafter return to Abuja on the same Wednesday.
The summit in South Korea will be the second in its series, coming after the first edition hosted by Mr Obama in Washington D.C from April 12 to 13, 2010.
Coming almost a year after the Fukushima Daiishi nuclear disaster in Japan, it will seek to advance global shared objectives in nuclear disarmament, nuclear proliferation, peaceful and safe use of nuclear energy, and security of employing nuclear power as a viable source of energy, among others.
