United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon held talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta Saturday and assured him the UN would support Kenya in the fight against terrorism.
The meeting between the two leaders followed the United Nations Environmental Assembly forum earlier in the week, attended by 112 ministers from across the globe who were among the 1,200 participants from 160 delegations in Gigiri.
The UN boss, who later visited the Nairobi National Park and adopted a lion, said they would support Kenya’s efforts against the global vice by boosting the capacity of the country’s security agencies. “I have had a very fruitful discussion on major political and security issues concerning counter- terrorism in Somalia, South Sudan and the Great Lakes region,” the UN Secretary General said at State House, Nairobi.
He added: “We have exchanged views at length about how the UN and Kenya can work together in countering the heinous attacks against the people and the country.” Uhuru said the presence of the UN in Kenya continues to grow, adding the UNAids had just started its global IT hub in Nairobi and the World Health Organisation located its global security unit in the country.
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