Ottawa, Ontario
22 September 2014
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will lead the Canadian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City from September 23 to 25, 2014.
In New York, the Prime Minister will re-affirm Canada’s global leadership in championing the health of women and children in developing countries. At the Every Woman Every Child event, the Prime Minister will join Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and fellow world leaders to ensure the international community maintains its focus and momentum on this priority development issue.
In addition to the Every Woman Every Child event, the Prime Minister will address the General Assembly, participate in a moderated question and answer session with business leaders, and attend a dinner on climate change with other world leaders. The Prime Minister will be accompanied by John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and Minister for La Francophonie, Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister for the Arctic Council, and Lynne Yelich, Minister of State (Foreign Affairs and Consular).
The primary objectives for Canada’s overall participation at this year’s United Nations General Assembly are to advance international cooperation on maternal, newborn and child health, and to discuss a range of pressing international issues, including Iraq, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and the situation in Ukraine.
