UN General Assembly: President Buhari Speaks On Conflict Prevention

President Muhammadu Buhari has addressed world leaders at the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA76).

He stressed the need not to only deal with the symptoms of conflict but to tackle the immediate causes that fuel crisis, including poor and undemocratic governance, human rights abuses, poverty, ignorance, injustice and inequalities.

President Muhammadu Buhari has addressed world leaders at the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA76).

On security, he raised concerns over illicit trade, transfer, and circulation of small arms and light weapons.

Their excessive accumulation and uncontrolled spread in many regions of the world, the President stated, were already having devastating humanitarian and socio-economic consequences, especially on the continent of Africa.

He, therefore, called for a worldwide application of the Arms Trade Treaty to codify accountability in conventional arms trade, saying it was critical to the security of nations.

He stressed the need not to only deal with the symptoms of conflict but to tackle the immediate causes that fuel crisis, including poor and undemocratic governance, human rights abuses, poverty, ignorance, injustice and inequalities.