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  • Middle East to dominate UN summit

    Middle East to dominate UN summit

    World leaders are gathering in New York for a United Nations General Assembly likely to be dominated by Syria, although it is not formally on the agenda.

    Discussions are also expected to centre on Iran’s nuclear programme and the video that has prompted anti-United States protests across the Muslim world, BBC reports.

    President Barack Obama is due to focus on the Middle East when he gives one of the opening speeches on Tuesday.

    His address comes six weeks before the U.S presidential election.

    But it is not to be seen as a campaign speech, according to White House spokesman Jay Carney.

    “I would expect the president to address the recent unrest in the Muslim world and the broader context of the democratic transitions of the Arab World.”

    Syria’s 18-month conflict is not formally on the UN General Assembly’s agenda but it is likely to be addressed by several speakers on the opening day, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, French President Francois Hollande and Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani.

    Mr. Hollande, in his first appearance at the assembly, is also expected to call for backing for an international force to be sent to the West African state of Mali to help dislodge Islamist militants who have taken over the north of the country.

     

  • Summit to address unemployment

    The Conference of the Northern States Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (CONSCCIMA) has said its economic and investment summit in October will address security and employment challenges in the north.

    CONSCIMMA chairman Ahmad Rabin said the conference’s second Economic and Investment Summit coming up on October 15 and 16 in Minna, Niger State.

    Rabin said the conference would adopt measures to revamp the region’s economic base and engage the youths in ventures that would keep them away from social vices.

      He said the summit would also examine the effects of insecurity on the economy of Nigeria and northern Nigeria, specifically, as well as develop a clear and realistic integrated economic revival agenda for northern Nigeria.

      It would advocate for peace as a recipe for economic growth and development, he added.
    Rabin said that the summit would harness the vast experience and resources of people of the region and its various governments for economic rebirth.

    He said the summit would be about rebirth, revival and reinvention of the north as a region and would be tied to the Federal Government’s transformation agenda.

      On the security challenge in the region, the chairman said that the situation was not peculiar to the north as “insecurity is a global phenomenon.”