Vice President Kashim Shettima yesterday departed Abuja for Rome, the Italian capital, to represent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Stocktaking Moment (STM) Summit.
A statement in Abuja by the Director of Information in his office, Mr. Olusola Abiola, said the Vice President would proceed from Rome to St. Petersburg in Russia, where he will participate in another international event.
The statement said the Rome summit, called: Transforming Food Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity, will begin today and end on Wednesday.
During the summit, the Vice President will chair a high-level session with the theme: Innovative Financing for Food System Transformation: the Case of Nigeria, and a side event on: Scaling Up Multi-Stakeholders’ Collaboration and Investment in the Implementation of Food Systems Transformation Pathways in Nigeria.
The event is being organised in collaboration with Rome-based UN agencies – the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and World Food Programme (WFP) as well as the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub and wider UN system.
Shettima will later move from Rome to St. Petersburg in Russia to represent President Tinubu at the Russia-Africa Summit from Wednesday, July 26 to Saturday, July 29.
While in Russia, the Vice President will join other political and business leaders at the second Russia–Africa Summit and Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum focused on strategising to enhance relations between Russia and the African continent, among other benefits.
Also, Vice President Shettima will participate in bilateral meetings with representatives of relevant Russian senior government officials and business leaders to discuss relations between Russia and Nigeria.
The Vice President, who was accompanied by senior government officials from various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), is expected back in the country at the weekend.