President Jammeh leaves for 68th UN General Assembly

The Gambian leader and delegation were seen off at the Banjul International Airport by the vice president and minister of Women’s Affairs, Her Excellency Aja Dr. Isatou Njie-Saidy, the speaker of the National Assembly, the chief justice, Cabinet ministers, senior government officials, service chiefs, managing directors and a cross-section of The Gambian community.

The Gambian leader will join other global leaders to debate on a number of cross-cutting issues affecting the world under the theme “Setting the Stage for the post-2015 agenda.”

Meanwhile, the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, in his September 17th opening statement, said the leaders will focus on how to accelerate achievement of the Millennium Development Goals as the 2015 deadline approaches.

“Business, civil society and the philanthropic community will come together to showcase MDG successes. We will intensify our efforts to define a post-2015 development agenda, including with a single set of goals for sustainable development that we hope will address the complex challenges of this new era and capture the imagination of the people of the world, as the MDGs did,” Ban said, while welcoming the president’s choice for the theme for the general debate: “setting the stage” for the post-2015 agenda.