President Trump is in New York City for a week of meetings and speeches with foreign leaders amid global uncertainty about a nuclear North Korea. 
 
 Trump's Monday will be packed with meetings, leading up to his first-ever speech to the General Assembly on Tuesday — a highly anticipated address in which the president is expected to discuss the specific threats of North Korea, Iran and global terrorism. 
 
 The president's schedule also includes meeting with representatives from more than 120 nations, as well as U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, to discuss reforming the international organization. Trump has been highly critical of the U.N., and the U.S. is backing changes it hopes will make the organization more efficient and effective. 
 
 The president will then meet with leaders from France and Israel with an expected focus on the Middle East — and Iran in particular — for what national security adviser H.R. McMaster has called that country’s “destabilizing behavior” in the region. 
 
 Trump will close out his first day of meetings at a working dinner with Latin American leaders to discuss the crisis in Venezuela, as well as how to maximize economic partnerships between the U.S. and South America. 
 
 Along the way, the threats posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and global terrorism in the wake of an attack at a London subway station figure to be hot topics of discussion. 
 
 Here are four things to watch for during Trump's visit: 
 
 U.S. pushes for reforms to the U.N. 
 
 The Trump administration has not been shy about expressing its discontent with the U.N. 
 
 The White House believes the U.S. pays too much for what it gets in return and that peacekeeping missions should be examined for excessive spending. Administration officials have described the U.N. as a bloated bureaucracy and have expressed anger by what they view as insufficient support for key allies, like Israel. 
 
 Trump appears to have an ally for reform in Guterres, who assumed the role of secretary general in January. 
 
 U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley Nimrata (Nikki) HaleyMedicare administrator violated Hatch Act, says watchdog group The Hill's 12:30 Report — Trump touts Iran sanctions with 'Game of Thrones' meme | 4 days to midterms | Toss-up races key to Senate battle | Strong October jobs report The Hill's Morning Report — Presented by PhRMA — Congress faces crush of November deadlines MORE said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that she is happy with the direction the U.N. has taken in recent weeks, noting that “Israel bashing” has declined and that the U.N. has passed new sanctions on North Korea. 
 
 “It is a new day at the U.N., and I think that the pleas [Trump] made in terms of trying to see change at the United Nations have been heard,” Haley said. 
 
 “We said we needed to get value for our dollar, and what we're finding is that the international community is right there with us in support of reform," she added. 
 
 Disagreements over how to deal with Iran 
 
 Trump will meet with leaders from Israel and France to discuss Iran on Monday as the administration steps up its rhetoric against Tehran. 
 
 “While their conversations will be wide-ranging, we expect that Iran's destabilizing behavior, including its violation of the sovereignty of nations across the Middle East, to be a major focus,” McMaster said at a press briefing on Friday. 
 
 The White House has until mid-October to notify Congress of whether it believes Iran is in compliance with the nuclear deal brokered by the Obama administration. 
 
 British Prime Minister Theresa May has sought to stress the importance of that deal in private meetings with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Rex Wayne TillersonChina is investing in Latin America, and the US is jealous No easy future for Saudi relations Trump’s anti-caravan efforts follow decades of regional frustration MORE. 
 
 However, Tillerson’s view is that while Iran may technically be keeping to the terms of the deal, that the country has violated the spirit of the agreement through a litany of other “destabilizing activities in the region.” 
 
 “Since the nuclear deal has been concluded what we have witnessed is Iran has stepped up its destabilizing activities in Yemen. It's stepped up its destabilizing activities in Syria. It exports arms to Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. And it continues to conduct a very active ballistic missile program,” Tillerson said Sunday on CBS News's "Face the Nation." 
 
 “None of that, I would believe, is consistent with that preamble commitment that was made by everyone," he said. 
 
 Unrest in Venezuela 
 
 Trump will close out Monday at a working dinner with Latin American leaders, where the focus is expected to be unrest in Venezuela. 
 
 The U.S. is asking questions about the legitimacy of President Nicolás Maduro’s election victory over the summer. The country has been racked by violent anti-government protests, as well as currency instability and food and medical shortages. 
 
 The U.S. slapped new economic sanctions on the country and is banning American companies from “participating in Maduro’s liquidation of the Venezuelan economy.” 
 
 While Trump discusses those challenges with Venezuela’s neighbors, Haley said at a Friday press conference the president is “unlikely” to speak with Maduro directly. 
 
 “As you know, the United States designated President Maduro after he victimized his own people, denied them their rights under his own constitution,” Haley said. “And I think as the president has made clear, he’s willing to talk at some point in the future, but it would have to be after rights are restored to the Venezuelan people.” 
 
 Finding the right balance on North Korea 
 
 While Trump doesn’t have meetings on Monday that will focus directly on North Korea — he will speak with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in later in the week — the administration will be seeking support for what Tillerson is calling the United States’ “peaceful pressure campaign” from world leaders. 
 
 The U.N. recently passed two rounds of sanctions against North Korea, and the Trump administration will be seeking to galvanize the isolated country’s regional neighbors, including Russia and China, against it. 
 
 Tillerson has said that despite Trump’s “fire and fury” rhetoric, the U.S. is committed to a diplomatic solution. 
 
 “I'm waiting for the regime of North Korea to give us some indication that they're prepared to have constructive, productive talks,” Tillerson said Sunday. 
 
 Haley, however, has spoken more boldly about the potential for U.S. military action. 
 
 "We wanted to be responsible and go through all diplomatic means to get their attention first,” she said Sunday on "State of the Union.” “If that doesn't work, [Defense Secretary James] Mattis will take care of it.” 
 
 "If North Korea keeps on with this reckless behavior, the United States has to defend itself or defend its allies anyway,” Haley continued. “North Korea will be destroyed, and we know that and none of us want that. None of us want war.” 
 
 Trump does not have a meeting on the books with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but the administration will be looking to pressure the Asian power where it can. 
 
 Speaking Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Tom Cotton Thomas (Tom) Bryant CottonFlake: Congress should not continue Kavanaugh investigations GOP senator suspects Schumer of being behind release of Ford letter Susan Collins becomes top 2020 target for Dems MORE (R-Ark.), a Trump ally, laid out the administration’s view. 
 
 “China can do more,” he said. “We have to put pressure on China, though, to achieve our objective, which is a denuclearized North Korea that can no longer threaten America.” ||||| CLOSE President Donald Trump said Monday a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will happen "in the not too distant future." He also said he will meet Thursday with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to determine "what's going on." (Sept. 24) AP 
 
 President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement at the Lotte New York Palace hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ORG XMIT: NYEV130 (Photo: AP) 
 
 NEW YORK – President Donald Trump blamed Iranian leaders for sowing "chaos, death and destruction" in a steely speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that heavily emphasized the president's support of national sovereignty over globalism. 
 
 Touting his meeting this year with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and blasting Iran for spreading mayhem in the Middle East, Trump offered an impassioned defense of a foreign policy doctrine he said would allow countries to shrug off "global governance." 
 
 "We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism," Trump said. "We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy." 
 
 Lobbing criticism at a bevy of international institutions, Trump called the U.N. human rights council "a grave embarrassment to this institution" and said the International Criminal Court "has no jurisdiction, no legitimacy and no authority." He celebrated some of his most divisive foreign policy decisions, including his crackdown on immigration and his recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. 
 
 The "America first" remarks drew on a similar speech he delivered at the United Nations last year but included more detailed examples of how that vision informs his policies on trade, immigration and the world's hot spots. 
 
 Though Trump reserved his harshest language for Iran, he did not shy away from condemning other countries by name. He jabbed China for what he said were unfair trade policies. And he announced sanctions against Venezuelan leaders and blasted the government of its president, Nicolas Maduro, saying his socialist policies have "bankrupted the oil-rich nation and driven its people into abject poverty." 
 
 Trump suggested he would sharply curtail U.S. foreign aid, saying he ordered a review by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of whether countries that receive American assistance are allies with shared values. 
 
 "We are only going to give foreign aid to those who respect us and, frankly, are our friends," Trump said. "And we expect other countries to pay their fair share for the cost of their defense." 
 
 In an awkward moment, minutes into his speech, the delegates in the chamber laughed at a regular talking point from the president. Trump said his administration had accomplished more than any other in U.S. history, prompting the reaction from the General Assembly hall. 
 
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 “So true,” Trump said. “I didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s OK.” 
 
 Trump’s boast drew ridicule from his critics on Twitter. “Preposterous,” tweeted Nicholas Burns, a longtime diplomat who served in the Bush and Clinton administrations. 
 
 Trump's remarks were buffeted by warnings from other world leaders that America's pullback from international institutions was ill-conceived and even dangerous. 
 
 French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a passionate defense of multilateralism, saying it was the only way to stave off instability and conflict across the globe. He rebuked Trump’s message, suggesting that “brandishing sovereignty” was a way of attacking others. 
 
 In the absence of a strong American commitment to preserving the international order, Macron suggested, France and other European countries could step into the void, leading the charge against urgent global threats, such as climate change, poverty and inequality. 
 
 “Do not accept the erosion of multilateralism. Don’t accept our history unraveling," Macron said to a receptive audience. 
 
 Macron focused on climate change as an issue that demanded “global mobilization” from other developed countries after Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, which aims to curb global warming by gradually reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. 
 
 “The Paris agreement has stayed intact, and that is because we have decided to stay unified in spite of the U.S. decision to withdraw. This is power,” Macron said. “Let’s stop signing trade agreements with those who don’t comply with the Paris agreement,” he added, outlining a strategy that would isolate the United States. 
 
 Macron had company in offering a sharp contrast to Trump's address. Speaking before Trump arrived at the podium, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented the rise of populism and a fraying of international cooperation – trends the U.S. president has fueled. 
 
 “Multilateralism is under fire precisely when we need it most,” Guterres declared. 
 
 Will be speaking at the United Nations this morning. Our country is much stronger and much richer than it was when I took office less than two years ago. We are also MUCH safer! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2018 
 
 “Trust in global governance is also fragile as 21st-century challenges outpace 20th-century institutions and mindsets,” Guterres said. “Among countries, cooperation is less certain and more difficult. Divisions in our Security Council are stark.” 
 
 Guterres said the world risks consequences if leaders do not act quickly on the problem of climate change. 
 
 "There is no way forward but collective, common-sense action for the common good," he said. 
 
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 Despite requests, I have no plans to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Maybe someday in the future. I am sure he is an absolutely lovely man! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2018 
 
 Trump wants allies at the United Nations to isolate Iran rather than try to salvage the 2015 nuclear agreement. The president described the nuclear deal as a "windfall" for Iranian leaders, accusing them of using eased sanctions in the agreement to fund terrorism. 
 
 "We cannot allow the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism to possess the planet’s most dangerous weapons," Trump said. "We cannot allow a regime that chants, 'Death to America' and that threatens Israel with annihilation to possess the means to deliver a nuclear warhead to any city on Earth. Just can't do it." 
 
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 President Trump waves as he walks from the Oval Office on Sept. 15, 2017, to Marine One. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP) 
 
 WASHINGTON — President Trump heads to the United Nations this week to meet with world leaders, and many of them are anxious — not just about global national security challenges, but about Trump himself. 
 
 While the still-new president hopes to use his first appearance before the U.N. General Assembly to rally other countries against North Korea's nuclear threats, some world leaders are still reeling from their last interactions with the somewhat testy Trump at global summits earlier this year. 
 
 Administration officials said Trump will arrive in New York with multiple missions, including trying to convince other countries to help the U.S. pressure North Korea into giving up nuclear weapons. He plans to criticize the Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran and address the economic meltdown in Venezuela and the ongoing civil war in Syria. 
 
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 Nikki Haley, Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, puts it simply: The president "slaps the right people, he hugs the right people, and he comes out with the U.S. being very strong in the end." 
 
 Trump will also pursue what his aides call "U.N, reform," another way of calling on members to pay for United Nations projects. 
 
 U.N. members, meanwhile, will be be watching the president's tone, some foreign policy analysts said, given Trump's aggressive performances at this year's NATO meeting, Group of Seven and Group of 20 summits. 
 
 There, Trump "came off as boorish and money-grubbing, and often unresponsive to the concerns of partner nations," said Stewart Patrick, senior fellow with the Council of Foreign Relations. 
 
 "At the U.N," Patrick said, "Trump can win by surpassing expectations about what he is going to say." 
 
 Richard Gowan, a United Nations expert with with the European Council on Foreign Relations, said Trump "performed poorly" at previous international meetings, and diplomats are concerned about a rerun. 
 
 "The swirl of minor leaders and frazzled diplomats around U.N. headquarters can be quite disconcerting, even for relatively calm leaders," Gowan said. "Trump may become irritable." 
 
 The U.N. activity comes in the shadow of Trump's previous international meetings, and the flaps that ensued, including: 
 
 • The Article 5 affair: At his first global summit, a May meeting of NATO members in Brussels, Trump annoyed some allies by declining to specifically endorse the organization's mutual defense commitment, known as Article 5. The tepid remarks on the treaty prompted German Chancellor Angela Merkel to suggest that Europe could no longer count on the United States for defense — even as Trump called for them to spend more money on their own defense. Only after returning to Washington did Trump reaffirm the alliance's commitment to treat an attack on one ally as an attack on all. 
 
 • The shove seen 'round the world: Also at NATO, Trump set the social media world ablaze when he appeared to shove Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic out of the way in a team photo op. Markovic said that incident was "inoffensive" and no big deal, noting that Trump was assigned to be at the front of the picture anyway. 
 
 • The Sicilian golf cart: Tensions followed Trump from Brussels to the Italian island of Sicily, where Trump clashed with leaders of the Group of Seven nations over trade and climate change policy. The body language between Trump and other leaders also drew stares; at one point other G-7 members took a walking tour of the ancient mountain village of Taormina; Trump followed behind in a golf cart. 
 
 • The Putin parlay: Delegates to the Group of 20 nations summit in Hamburg, Germany, looked on wide-eyed as Trump spent hours talking with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A formal meeting set for 30 minutes ran for more than two hours and the pair also spoke at length at a G-20 dinner. All this came as a U.S. special counsel is investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion with Trump associates. 
 
 President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. (Photo: Michael Klimentyev, European Pressphoto Agency) 
 
 But Trump's aides say the president was pleased with his earlier summit meetings. Trump is proud of commitments by NATO members to spend more on their national defense, as one example. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump has developed good relations with world leaders "so they can focus on big problems like North Korea." 
 
 Yet Trump's behavior at the U.N. will be highly scrutinized, especially given how he has also criticized the body over the past year. 
 
 During the presidential transition in December, the recently elected Trump criticized a U.N. vote condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In a tweet, Trump said the world body has become "just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!” 
 
 In another post, he said, "as to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th," but did not elaborate. 
 
 Some potential flash points may be avoided, at least this time. 
 
 At least two key world leaders won't be at the U.N. this year: China's President Xi Jinping, whom Trump is lobbying especially hard to pressure North Korea, and Putin, who is also involved in disputes over North Korea and Syria, whose relationship with Trump is especially controversial. 
 
 Merkel, who has clashed with Trump over trade and refugee policy, is also not expected to attend, as she is locked in a re-election campaign. 
 
 Trump's trip to New York City opens Monday when he and more than 120 world leaders attend a meeting on United Nations reform. 
 
 After that, Trump meets separately with French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. One of their topics: Iran and the nuclear agreement reached by President Obama and U.S. allies in 2015. 
 
 The Trump administration has re-certified the Iran agreement, but Trump himself continues to claim that Tehran is violating "the spirit" of the agreement in which the Iranians give up the means to make nuclear weapons in exchange for reduction of sanctions by the U.S. and its allies. 
 
 On Monday evening, Trump will host a working dinner with Latin American leaders, with Venezuela's problems as the main topic. As the chaos in Venezuela, including a government crackdown on civil liberties, threatens to spill over into neighboring countries, Trump has even spoken of "a military option." 
 
 The president's major speech to the general assembly comes Tuesday morning. 
 
 Over the course of U.N. week, Trump will also host a diplomatic reception have lunches with African leaders and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres. He also has roster of bilateral meetings with leaders of Slovakia, Qatar, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Turkey, Afghanistan and Ukraine. He is also expected to meet with the president of South Korea. 
 
 Trump and aides said he represents an "America First" foreign policy, claiming that other countries have taken advantage of the United States with bad trade deals and agreements that force Americans a disproportionate share of the costs. 
 
 Other countries have accused Trump of abandoning U.S. leadership. The president's trip to the U.S. could present what Patrick, from the Council on Foreign Relations, called "a juxtaposition of America First with folks who are dedicated to international cooperation." 
 
 Richard Fontaine, president of the Washington-based Center For a New American Security think tank, said the United Nations is a "world forum," and other members are asking "what kind of picture is the president going to paint on what he wants to see the United States do in that world forum?" 
 
 One big thing other countries want to know, Fontaine said, is: "How much does he value allies?" 
 
 Gowan, who teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, also noted that the president is notoriously difficult to predict. 
 
 "To be honest," he said, "nobody is really sure what Trump is going to do at the U.N." 
 
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 News Analysis The Big Question as the U.N. Gathers: What to Make of Trump? Video Representatives from 193 nations are set to gather for the 72nd annual General Assembly. All eyes will be on President Trump as he juggles diplomatic tensions in countries like North Korea and Iran. 
 
 WASHINGTON — Every year, the president heads to New York to welcome world leaders to the United Nations General Assembly. He gives a speech and meets with an endless string of foreign potentates to discuss a dizzying array of complicated, often intractable issues. 
 
 The days are “kind of like speed dating from hell,” as one analyst put it, and the evenings are “the world’s most tedious cocktail party.” In other words, not exactly President Trump’s favored format. 
 
 But when Mr. Trump attends the first United Nations session of his presidency this coming week, all eyes will be on him as counterparts from around the globe crane their necks and slide through the crowd to snatch a handshake — and, in the process, try to figure out this most unusual of American leaders. 
 
 “The world is still trying to take the measure of this president,” said Jon B. Alterman, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and author of the speed-dating analogy. “For a number of leaders, this is going to be their first chance to see him, to judge him, to try to get on his good side.” 
 
 In some places, there has been an instinct to dismiss Mr. Trump as a bombastic, Twitter-obsessed political and diplomatic neophyte. “But the fact is you can’t write off the American president,” Mr. Alterman said. 
 
 One of Mr. Trump’s primary tasks will be to define how his America First approach — which has led him to pull out of international agreements on free trade and climate change — fits into the world-first mission of the United Nations. 
 
 His challenge is “to describe the Trump Doctrine on U.S. global leadership and engagement,” said Zalmay Khalilzad, ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush. “The perception in many parts of the world, including the U.N., is that President Trump is unilateralist and isolationist. Trump has the opportunity to present and describe his vision and strategy. The world will be all ears.” 
 
 Mr. Trump arrives in New York at a time of crackling tension over North Korea’s provocative actions and deep uncertainty about what he will do with President Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran. While foreign leaders once feared that an erratic American presidency was taking shape, they have been reassured, to some extent, that Mr. Trump is settling into a somewhat more conventional foreign policy than many had anticipated, analysts said. 
 
 The president has not launched an all-out trade war with China, ripped up the Iran deal or the North American Free Trade Agreement, or moved the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, at least not yet. He has belatedly reaffirmed support for NATO and agreed to send more troops to Afghanistan. 
 
 “But America’s friends still see dysfunctionality at the heart of the Trump administration, as key advisers come and go through the revolving door,” said Peter Westmacott, a former British ambassador to Washington. “They remain disheartened by Trump’s announcements on climate change and trade policy.” And “they fear that the fighting talk of this impulsive president could make things worse rather than better on the Korean Peninsula.” 
 
 Previewing the week, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the president’s national security adviser, said Mr. Trump would stress “sovereignty and accountability.” Sovereignty is a term that appeals to American conservatives skeptical about the United Nations. It is also a term, however, used by autocrats like Presidents Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela to reject interference by outside powers as they crush opposition. 
 
 Mr. Trump will emphasize longstanding efforts to reform what many Republicans see as the sclerotic and inefficient United Nations organization, but aides would not say whether he would commit to the traditional level of American financing as Washington remains in arrears. “You’ll have to wait and see,” said Nikki R. Haley, the ambassador to the United Nations. 
 
 Mr. Trump’s advisers made little mention of United Nations priorities like the so-called Global Goals set in 2015 to eliminate poverty and hunger, improve health and the environment, and reduce inequality and gender discrimination by 2030. 
 
 “The train has left the station, and he wants the train to come back to the station,” said Sarah E. Mendelson, an ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council under Mr. Obama. “It’s going to go on regardless of what the president does or doesn’t say.” 
 
 Mr. Trump will begin the week on Monday with a meeting on United Nations reform. He will meet with the leaders of France and Israel and host a dinner with Latin American leaders. On Tuesday, he will deliver his centerpiece speech to the General Assembly, have lunch with António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, and meet with Miroslav Lajcak, the president of the General Assembly. He will also meet with the emir of Qatar and host a diplomatic reception. 
 
 On Wednesday, Mr. Trump will meet individually with the leaders of Britain, Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority and host a luncheon with African leaders. On Thursday, he will meet with the leaders of Turkey, Afghanistan and Ukraine and host a lunch with the leaders of South Korea and Japan. 
 
 Ms. Haley said Mr. Trump would use his speech to lay down markers. “I personally think he slaps the right people, he hugs the right people, and he comes out with the U.S. being very strong in the end,” she said. 
 
 North Korea will be “front and center,” Ms. Haley said, just days after the Security Council escalated sanctions in response to its latest nuclear and missile tests. “And at that point, there’s not a whole lot the Security Council is going to be able to do,” she said, and so “I have no problem kicking it to General Mattis, because I think he has plenty of options,” she added, referring to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. 
 
 The lunch with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea could help determine the next steps. “They will also be looking to see if Trump is looking towards a long path with North Korea and looking towards diplomacy eventually,” said Lisa Collins, a Korea scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. 
 
 The president’s schedule offers various subplots. While Mr. Obama used his first United Nations visit to bring together Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Trump will meet with them separately on different days, and aides played down expectations of progress in his peacemaking initiative. Indeed, aides said the meeting with Mr. Netanyahu would probably focus more on Iran, with the Israeli leader pressing Mr. Trump to revise or scrap the nuclear agreement. 
 
 Mr. Trump will not meet with Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the new prime minister of Pakistan, after recently increasing pressure on the American ally to crack down on Taliban elements operating out of its territory. Instead, Vice President Mike Pence will take that meeting. Likewise, Mr. Trump is not scheduled to attend a meeting on climate change. 
 
 Many will watch Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, who has been overshadowed by Ms. Haley, to see if he has influence or is on the way out. Mr. Tillerson is scheduled to meet with leaders or foreign ministers from Iraq, India, Russia and Myanmar, among others. 
 
 But to the extent world leaders evaluate the new president, Ms. Haley said they should be impressed. “They’re going to find out we are going to be solid, we’re going to be strong,” she said. “No one is going to grip and grin. The United States is going to work.” 
 
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– President Trump attends his first session of the UN General Assembly this week, with his big speech scheduled for Tuesday. In addition to that, however, he's got a packed week of meetings with fellow world leaders, a format that one analyst compares to "speed dating from hell," via CNN. Aides have previewed some of the big topics Trump is expected to hit, with North Korea, Iran's nuclear program, global terrorism, the Venezuelan economic meltdown, and UN reform among them. But much of the advance focus is on how Trump will interact with his fellow leaders in front of an organization he has previously belittled. UN ambassador Nikki Haley offered a preview on Sunday: "I personally think he slaps the right people, he hugs the right people, and he comes out with the US being very strong in the end," she said in regard to his Tuesday speech, per the New York Times. Some highlights: (Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jinping, and Germany's Angela Merkel are not expected to attend, notes USA Today): Monday: Trumps meets with the leaders of France and Israel, with Iran expected to be a big focus, reports the Hill. He also hosts a dinner with Latin American leaders, at which Venezuela is likely to be the No. 1 topic. Tuesday: Trump delivers his speech to the General Assembly, his first as president to the full body. Wednesday: Trump meets with the leaders of Britain, Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority, and hosts a lunch with leaders from Africa. Thursday: In addition to meetings with the leaders of Turkey, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, he hosts a lunch with the leaders of South Korea and Japan. The latter could be key in determining what comes next in regard to North Korea. Key quote: "The world is still trying to take the measure of this president," says Jon Alterman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "For a number of leaders, this is going to be their first chance to see him, to judge him, to try to get on his good side. ... They will have been preparing for a chance encounter for weeks."