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UN chief travelling to Canada for global fund conference

Xinhua, September 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will leave here late Friday for Montreal in Canada to address the opening of the Fifth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a UN spokesman told reporters here.

The secretary-general will also have a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here.

The secretary-general will be back in New York on Saturday, he said.

On Sunday, he will have a number of bilateral meetings ahead of the start of the General Debate of the UN General Assembly, the week-long annual high-level event which will kick off on Tuesday, the spokesman added. Enditem