By Gloria Ikibah
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Maitama Tuggar has called for an urgent reform of the United Nations Security Council.
Amb. Tuggar who stated this at an engagement forum in the United States said the UN Security Council, which isa key governing organ of the world needs to be democratize to include Nigeria, the largest country in Africa as a member of the G20.
In a statement by the Special Assistant on Media and Communications Strategy to the Minister, Alkasim Abdulkadir and made available to Naijablitznews.com, the minister said Nigeria needs to be in that Security Council as a permanent member.
The statement reads in part: “We need to develop for we have been fighting terrorism for the last 15 years successfully with homegrown solutions.
“We have a Multinational Joint Task Force that has successfully degraded Boko Haram in the northeastern Lake Chad region. So, we are here to partner with America”.
The Minister further disclosed that the meeting in Washington with officials of the United States was aimed at strengthening relationship between the two countries as well as a follow-up to the US-Nigeria Binational Commission meeting held last month in Nigeria.
“It is a follow-up to the very successful binational commission meetings which were held in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria; and of course, to build on the gains that we have made so far with regards to our foreign policy agenda which is, Democracy, Demography, Development, and Diaspora, the 4Ds.
“Of course, Nigeria is the Largest democratic country on the African continent. It is the largest country in terms of population. 220 million.
“We’re set to become the third-largest county in the world by the year 2050 when we will have a population of 400 million. And we are the largest economy”, Tuggar stated.