Sambo arrives Mongolia for conference of Community of Democracies

The Vice President, Architect Mohammed Namadi Sambo, has arrived Ulaambaatar, Mongolia for the seventh meeting of the Community of Democracies.
Sambo, who arrived on Saturday, will represent President Goodluck Jonathan at the Global Conference on Democracy, which will hold between April 27 and 29, 2013.
The vice president will engage stakeholders on Nigeria’s democratic gains and her leading role in the democratic transition in Africa.
Nigeria is a member of the Governing Council of Member States of the CoD.
Member states of the CoD have elected Nigeria as the incoming President of the Council for the period 2015 to 2017.
Earlier this month, the Nigerian Government organised a two-day national workshop with the theme: “Strengthening Democratic Transition and Institutions”, which it hopes to adopt as the theme of her presidency of the Governing Council.
The Governing Council is the nucleus of the CoD.
Through its initiatives, activities are nurtured to support democratic processes in individual countries.
Other member states are Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Finland, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Republic Of Korea, Sweden, United States and Uruguay.
The conference holds every two years to review the organisation’s activities at supporting democratic processes in individual countries.
The conference was first convened in Warsaw in 2000, where the Final Declaration towards the Community of Democracies was signed.
The vice president, who was accompanied by his wife, Amina Namadi Sambo, and  the Governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, was received by the Vice Minister, Foreign Affairs, of Mongolia, D. Gankhuyaf; Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Viola Onwuliri; Nigeria’s Ambassador to China, Ambassado Aminu Wali; and Nigeria’s Ambassador to Poland, Ambassador Samuel Wodi Jimba, on arrival at the Chinggis Khan Airport, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.