President
Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, for Paris on
September 14 to begin a three-day official visit to France at the invitation of
President Francois Hollande. According to a statement from the Nigerian
President’s office, President Buhari will be accompanied on the visit by the
National Security Adviser, Major –General Babagana Monguno (Rtd), the Permanent
Secretaries in the Federal Ministries of Defense, Finance, Agriculture, Foreign
Affairs, Industry, Trade and Investment as well as the Chief Executives of the
Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission and the Nigerian Export Promotion
council. As the composition of
his entourage indicates, President Buhari’s talks in Paris with President
Hollande and other senior French Government officials will focus on the further
strengthening and consolidation of ongoing bilateral cooperation between
Nigeria and France in the areas of defense, security, trade and investments.
Apart from his scheduled meeting with President Hollande at the Elyse Palace on
Monday evening, the President and his team will also confer with the French
Minister of Defense, Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French Minister of Finance and
Public Accounts, Mr Michel Sapin, the French Minister of Economy and Industry,
Mr Emmanuel Macron and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International
Development, Mr Laurent Fabius. President Buhari will visit the Headquarters of
MEDEF, France’s largest federation of investors and employers, where he would
participate in a France/Nigeria Investment Forum with leading Nigerian and
French entrepreneurs. The President will also confer with the Chief Executive
Officers of leading French multinational companies such as Total and Lafarge on
their current and future investments in Nigeria. His other scheduled
engagements in Paris include a meeting with African Ambassadors to France and
an interactive session with members of the Nigerian community. The President
will conclude his visit to France on Wednesday, September 16 and return to Abuja
the same day.
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