Saturday, October 1, 2011

66th United Nation General Assembly

StarBuzz Weekly, Toronto-Deepak Obhrai, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, recently attended the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. While at UNGA, Mr. Obhrai met with numerous high level delegates. In particular, Mr Obhrai had very productive bilateral meetings, with the Foreign Ministers of Ghana, Mali, and Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, and Liberia to discuss important regional and economic issues. As well, Mr. Obhrai briefly met the Foreign Ministers of Bangladesh and Australia and the undersecretaries of the United Kingdom and the United States of America (Africa).
In addition, Mr. Obhrai was the Canadian delegate that represented Canada atthe ministerial level summit on the Horn of Africa. Mr. Obhrai took this opportunity to reaffirmed Canada’s commitment and engagement with Africa.
“This was a very productive engagement in strengthening our bilateral relations” said Deepak Obhrai.

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