Obama to meet world leaders at UN

US President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with several world leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meetings to discuss a number of key issues, including Libya and Syria, the White House announced. The US President will meet Chairman of the Libyan National Transitional Council Mustafa Abdul Jalil next Tuesday to congratulate him on the Libyan people success in ending the rule of Gaddafi, the Council''s plans for the period after Gaddafi, and the US support for Libya. Obama will also attend an international meeting on Libya chaired by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. President Obama will meet with French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss the situation in Libya and the relations with Paris and London. Meanwhile, the US President will hold a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the political crisis in Syria and the Middle East unrest, as well as the Turkish-Israeli conflict. He will also meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is not scheduled yet. Obama will meet as well with South Sudan''s President Salva Kiir Mayardit for the first time since the declaration of South Sudan as an independent state. The US President will also hold a meeting with Afghanistan''s President Hamid Karzai on the transition plans and the US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan.