[Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to address this month's United Nations General Assembly meeting, an aide said on Tuesday, in what would be his first trip to the West since his disputed re-election in June.Ahmadinejad's attendance of the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. headquarters in New York would take place in the same month that Western powers have set as a deadline for Tehran to agree to talks on its nuclear program.
U.S. President Barack Obama, who has given Iran until September to take up an offer of talks on trade benefits if it shelves nuclear enrichment or face harsher sanctions, will speak at the same U.N. meeting on Sept. 23.
"The president's trip to New York is still on his agenda and relevant officials here in Tehran are working on the necessary preparations," Ali-Akbar Javanfekr, Ahmadinejad's media adviser, said.