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The president met today with Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan where the two discussed the Nigeria's latest regional and global developments.  The two also discussed U.S. and Nigerian bilateral partnership. President Obama met in the Oval Office today with Nigeria's President, Goodluck Jonathan. Photo/CD Brown. Goodluck became Nigeria's 14th president last month. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). On 13 January 2010, a federal court handed him the power to carry out state affairs while President Umaru Yar'Adua received medical treatment in a Saudi Arabian hospital. A motion from the Nigerian Senate on 9 February 2010 confirmed these powers to act as President, in recognition of her opinion. On 24 February 2010, Yar'Adua returned to Nigeria, but Jonathan continued a...

President and Mrs. Obama leaving the White House last evening, boarding Marine 1 to Andrews AFB.  Photo/CD Brown. The President and First Lady left the White House last evening on route to their visit to Europe where it is expected the two will make several stops in their travel that includes Ireland (where the President has lineage).  The first event will be a meeting between the President and the First Lady, with President McAleese and her husband.  This meeting will serve as an opportunity to discuss both bilateral issues with President McAleese and also to honor her extraordinary legacy of serving the people of Ireland and advancing peace in Northern Ireland. Then the President will travel to Moneygall, Ireland, which is the town in Ireland from which the President’s ancestors came.  Later, the president will return to Dublin, where he’ll deliver remarks at a public event about the ties between the United States and Ireland. ...

New York, NY - The NPT is reviewed every five years by all states that are party to the treaty, currently numbering 189. The conference is formally known as the Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The 2010 Review Conference is takes place from May 3-28 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The President's remarks follow: "To the participants of the NPT Review Conference , Forty years after the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty entered into force, we have come together to answer a simple question with consequences for us all: as individual nations and as an international community, will we uphold the rights and responsibilities of all nations in order to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons? For four decades, the NPT has been the cornerstone of our collective efforts to prevent the proliferation of these weapons. But today, this regime is under increasing pressure. A year ago in Prague, I therefore made it a ...