President Jagan to address UN General Assembly
President Janet Jagan will address the United Nations General Assembly on the 50th Anniversary of the declaration on human rights on Tuesday at UN headquarters in New York. President Jagan, who served briefly at the United Nations as Guyana's Acting Ambassador, will make her first appearance there as Head of State, a release from the Guyana Information Service (GIS) said yesterday. The GIS release said that the President's address will be made during a week-long visit to the United States, starting from tomorrow. Mrs Jagan will meet with Guyanese communities in Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, New York. The release also noted that the President will speak on "New and Restored Democracies - the Guyana Experience" at the Woodrow Wilson School (Princeton University), Medgar Evers College and Columbia University. In Queens, New York, she will commission a Health Centre named after the late President, Dr Cheddi Jagan, and will address a public meeting at York College, City University of New York. The President, according to the release, will be accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee and Political Adviser, Kellawan Lall, who will be joined in New York by Ambassador to the US, Odeen Ishmael and Guyana's Permanent Representative to the UN, Rudy Insanally. 
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