DRUGS/NIKKI HALEY/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump will call for global action on the world drug problem, lay out his vision of the U.S. role in the world, and urge a halt to the spread of weapons of mass destruction during next week’s gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly. Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters Thursday [9-20-18] that Trump’s focus ‘will be very much on the United States,’ its role and the relations it wants to build, and ‘how we can make the American people proud, and what actions we can show that really live up to that’…Haley said Trump will address a high-level event Monday [9-24-18] on the ‘Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem,’ which 124 countries have already signed up to support. She said the U.S. is looking forward to more signatories. The president will address the assembly’s 193 member nations at the official opening Tuesday [9-18-18] morning of the global gabfest known as the General Debate.”
–The Associated Press, “Trump to Address Drugs, Nuclear Weapons in UN Speeches,” The New York Times online, September 20, 2018