Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley joined world lead­ers at the 78th Ses­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly in New York yes­ter­day.

In a post on his Face­book page, the Prime Min­is­ter shared pho­tos from the ses­sion and al­so gave de­tails of the event.

The post stat­ed that T&T na­tion­al, Am­bas­sador Den­nis Fran­cis is the cur­rent pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) and of­fi­ci­at­ed over yes­ter­day’s pro­ceed­ings.

An­tónio Guter­res, Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al of the Unit­ed Na­tions, Pres­i­dent of Brazil, His Ex­cel­len­cy Luiz In­á­cio Lu­la da Sil­va and US Pres­i­dent, His Ex­cel­len­cy, Joseph Biden all de­liv­ered state­ments at the open­ing of the de­bate.

The post stat­ed that this year’s theme is Ac­cel­er­at­ing Ac­tion on the 2030 Agen­da and its Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals to­wards peace, pros­per­i­ty, progress and sus­tain­abil­i­ty for all.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment Pen­ne­lope Beck­les and Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh were al­so present at the Gen­er­al As­sem­bly Hall.

Dr Row­ley met with Am­bas­sador Fran­cis and con­grat­u­lat­ed him on his as­cen­dan­cy to pres­i­dent of the UN­GA. Ac­cord­ing to the post, he ex­pressed a de­sire to see pri­or­i­ty giv­en to is­sues re­lat­ed to Cari­com’s ad­vo­ca­cy around repa­ra­tions and the on­go­ing cri­sis in Haiti.

Dr Row­ley al­so met in the mar­gins with the Pres­i­dent of Ghana, Nana Aku­fo-Ad­do. The two lead­ers dis­cussed re­newed col­lab­o­ra­tion in agri­cul­ture, among oth­er mat­ters.

The Prime Min­is­ter par­tic­i­pat­ed in dis­cus­sions with Vice Pres­i­dent of Ugan­da, Jes­si­ca Alupo which fo­cused on bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions and ad­di­tion­al op­por­tu­ni­ties for col­lab­o­ra­tion, in­clud­ing at the lev­el of the G77.

Row­ley al­so held bi­lat­er­al talks with Sau­di Ara­bia’s Min­is­ter of Tourism, Ahmed Alkha­teeb. The talks cen­tred on op­por­tu­ni­ties to en­hance tourism and oth­er in­vest­ments. The dis­cus­sion al­so ex­plored the pos­si­bil­i­ties of fa­cil­i­tat­ing eas­i­er trav­el arrange­ments for T&T na­tion­als who wish to per­form Ha­jj.

Prime Min­is­ter Row­ley will de­liv­er his na­tion­al state­ment in the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly Hall on Thurs­day.