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2009-09-23 03:28:52
US President Barack Obama is due to deliver his first speech to the United
Nations General Assembly in New York.
He is expected to say the US is acting to tackle global challenges, but will
stress that other nations also need to do their part.
Mr Obama will also stress the change in attitude of the US to the UN compared
to that of the Bush administration.
The assembly will also hear from Libyan leader General Muammar Gaddafi for the
first time, and the Iranian president.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has previously said he does not believe the Holocaust
happened, will address the assembly, but the Germans have said they will walk
out if he repeats the claim.
Mr Obama will address leaders from more than 120 countries, a day after he
spoke at the UN's climate change summit.
UN SPEECHES ON WEDNESDAY
The president acknowledged that the US had been slow to act, but promised a
"new era" of promoting clean energy and reducing carbon pollution.
His maiden general assembly speech will address nuclear non-proliferation,
"peace and security, climate change, and global growth and development, and
underscore America's fundamental commitment to universal values - and challenge
others in the United Nations to do the same," an unnamed senior US official
said.
Some countries may not take kindly to his words urging greater responsibility
if it sounds too much like a lecture, particularly those who feel his
commitments to tackle global warning were disappointing, says the BBC's Mark
Mardell in New York.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will tell the assembled leaders: "Amid many
crises - food, energy, recession and pandemic flu, hitting all at once - the
world looks to us for answers.
"If ever there were a time to act in a spirit of renewed multilateralism, a
moment to create a United Nations of genuine collective action, it is now,"
according to reports of his prepared remarks.