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Mugabe jets off to New York
21 Sep 2013 at 05:26hrs | Views
PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare last night to attend the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly that started on Tuesday in New York.
President Mugabe is expected to join other world leaders on September 24 for a high level political forum on sustainable development.
President Mugabe is accompanied by the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe and senior Government officials. In his remarks while opening the 68th Session at the UN headquarters on Tuesday, UNGA incoming president Dr John William Ashe from Antigua and Barbuda said: "The upcoming year will be pivotal for this assembly as we seek to identify the parameters of the post-2015 development agenda."
The summit comes at a time world peace is under threat from western overtures on Syria, where western sponsored rebels are engaged in a civil war against the government.
President Mugabe is expected to join other world leaders on September 24 for a high level political forum on sustainable development.
President Mugabe is accompanied by the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe and senior Government officials. In his remarks while opening the 68th Session at the UN headquarters on Tuesday, UNGA incoming president Dr John William Ashe from Antigua and Barbuda said: "The upcoming year will be pivotal for this assembly as we seek to identify the parameters of the post-2015 development agenda."
The summit comes at a time world peace is under threat from western overtures on Syria, where western sponsored rebels are engaged in a civil war against the government.
Source - herald
