The President of the United States, Barack Obama, will meet with Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, the leaders of Iraq and Colombia on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly holding next week.
The White House Deputy National Security Adviser, Ben Rhodes, explained that President Obama would hold separate sessions with the Nigerian President, Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider Al-Abadi and Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos.
President Buhari would participate in the five-day, 71st session of the General Assembly where he would deliver Nigeria’s statement at the opening of the general debate.
The theme of this year’s debate is “The Sustainable Development Goals: A Universal Push To Transform Our World”.
Attack On US President
The proposed meeting comes as President Obama cancelled a meeting with controversial Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, who earlier called him a “son of a whore”.
Mr Duterte was responding to the US President’s promise to raise the issue of drug-related and extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at their meeting.
US aides later confirmed Mr Obama would meet South Korea’s President instead.
In reply, Mr Duterte issued a statement saying he regretted that the comment came across as a personal attack on the US President.
This is not the first time President Duterte has made inflammatory statements against prominent figures as he had attacked Pope Francis, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry and the US Ambassador to the Philippines in recent times.
