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President Buhari Visits Netherlands

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Netherlands ahead of his scheduled visit to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

The President’s aircraft landed at Rotterdam-The Hague Airport on Sunday night.

He was welcomed by the President of the ICC, Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, the Vice-President of the Court, Marc Perrin de Brichambut and the Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama.

Others at the airport to welcome President Buhari include Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Oji Ngofa, and Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Nigeria, Robert Petri.

The President is in the Netherlands to participate in activities to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), at The Hague.

His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said on Saturday that President Buhari is the only world leader invited to deliver a keynote address at the event which commemorates the anniversary at Courtroom 1 of the ICC’s Headquarters at The Hague.

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