Ahmadinejad heads to NY for UN session

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after a sojourn in the Algerian capital, has set off for New York, where he is to address the UN General Assembly.

Ahmadinejad flew out of Algiers on Saturday evening following a meeting with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika after a visit with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus earlier in the day, the IRNA news agency reported.

The Iranian leader is scheduled to deliver a speech at the 65th UN General Assembly session, which officially opened on Tuesday at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

The annual summit is to focus on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG Summit) from September 20 to 22.

The General Assembly will then be convened from September 23 to 30, while the Security Council meeting is scheduled for September 23.

Ahmadinejad will also be delivering an address to the MDG Summit.

Ahmadinejad’s top advisor, Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi, said the president will give interviews to US media outlets and meet US scholars and intellectuals and Iranian immigrants during his trip to New York.

In his talks, the Iranian president will focus on the need to change the current materialistic world management system into one based on spiritual and humanitarian values, Hashemi said.