On the sidelines of African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, President Joseph N. Boakai has convened a Breakfast Consultation on the Future of the United Nations, attended by several African heads of state as well as representatives, at the Marriott Hotel in Addis Ababa.
With Liberia firmly seated on the United Nations Security Council and recently assuming the chairmanship of the African Group in New York, President Boakai is pursuing strategic leadership with the aim of building consensus on a litany of critical continental issues.
This high-level gathering is an informal, closed-door breakfast consultation aimed at facilitating frank and forward-looking discussions on the future of the United Nations and the up-coming election of a new Secretary-General. Participants are lending particular attention to Africa’s role and interests as well as to whether the current Secretary-General selection cycle is itself conducive to meaningful institutional reform.
Other moves that have been made by the Liberian Leader include holding special meetings with high level personalities to foster impactful relations and interactions with Liberia.
At the top of such meeting was one yesterday with His Excellency Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The special bilateral meeting took place at the Addis International Convention Center. The two leaders explored areas of mutual interests to their respective countries.
A day earlier, on Friday, February 13, President Boakai also hosted the President of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), Honorable Abdullah Almusaibeeh and the Acting Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Honorable Mame Mandiaye Niang, to separate meetings at his Presidential Suite at the Marriott Hotel in Addis Ababa.
