Vice President Kashim Shettima has proposed global cooperation as the compass towards maximising available opportunities, as well as surmounting all challenges confronting mankind.
According to a statement on Saturday morning by the Director of Information in his office, Mr Olusola Abiola, Shettima made the proposal in his address to World leaders at the ongoing G77+China Leaders’ Summit at the Palace Convention Havana, Cuba.
“We must always remember that cooperation is our compass and the most realistic path towards maximizing the opportunities and resolving challenges before us,” Shettima said.
Speaking to an Assembly of Heads of State and Government, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Gutteres and delegates from over 100 countries from the global South, the Vice President emphasized the need to be focussed leveraging cooperation or partnership for finding realistic solutions to global challenges.
“We must not allow geopolitical tensions in any corner of the world to deter us from forging a collective and mutually advantageous path forward – a roadmap of shared prosperity and progress,” he advised.
The Vice President expressed Nigeria’s commitment to tow the path of partnership with member-States of the G77+China towards addressing global challenges.
