Turkey to go to UN General assembly with full agenda

A Turkish delegation led by the Turkish prime minister is set to depart for New York next week to participate in the UN General Assembly, which will commence on Tuesday for the 66th time, with an agenda that is filled with groundbreaking developments from all over the world. Among the top priorities of the Turkish delegation, headed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and including Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, is the Palestinian bid for international recognition of its sovereignty and the Cyprus issue. Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay acknowledged in an interview with private CNNTurk on Wednesday that a meeting is likely to take place between US President Barack Obama and Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN meetings. Erdogan is scheduled to address the 193-member UN General Assembly, in addition to having bilateral and multilateral meetings on the sidelines of the meeting, the Anatolia news agency reported on yesterday, citing diplomatic sources. Although the Palestinian bid for recognition at the UN is speculated to be one of the leading topics of the high-level sessions, the strategy the Palestinian officials may pursue at the UN remains unknown. Palestine is expected to apply to either the Security Council for recognition, or to the General Assembly, where such a bid is likely to pass with approval from the majority. However, the Palestinian strategy in the General Assembly leads only to a non-member observer state, much like the position currently held by the Vatican.