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Mugabe off to New York
17 Sep 2011 at 10:51hrs | Views
PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare last night for next week's 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he will deliver an address.
The First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Health and Child Welfare Minister Henry Madzorera and other senior Government officials were part of the delegation accompanying him.
President Mugabe was seen off at the Harare International Airport by senior Government officials.
The main plenary of the UN General Assembly - whose agenda was still embargoed yesterday - would be preceded by high-level meetings, chief among them the Summit on Non-Communicable
Diseases (NCDs) scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.
The meeting is the second in the international body's history to focus on a global disease after the HIV and Aids Summit of 2001 that led to the creation of the Global Fund.
UN members organised the interface on NCDs to formulate a co-ordinated global strategy to prevent and control the diseases. Deliberations would centre on prominent NCDs such as cancers, cardiovascular ailments, chronic respiratory disorders and diabetes.
Leaders are expected to discuss Millennium Development Goals.
The First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Health and Child Welfare Minister Henry Madzorera and other senior Government officials were part of the delegation accompanying him.
President Mugabe was seen off at the Harare International Airport by senior Government officials.
The main plenary of the UN General Assembly - whose agenda was still embargoed yesterday - would be preceded by high-level meetings, chief among them the Summit on Non-Communicable
The meeting is the second in the international body's history to focus on a global disease after the HIV and Aids Summit of 2001 that led to the creation of the Global Fund.
UN members organised the interface on NCDs to formulate a co-ordinated global strategy to prevent and control the diseases. Deliberations would centre on prominent NCDs such as cancers, cardiovascular ailments, chronic respiratory disorders and diabetes.
Leaders are expected to discuss Millennium Development Goals.
Source - TH
