Zelenskyy, Netanyahu, Gulf Leaders Head to Trump at UNGA
President Donald Trump meets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at UN Headquarters in New York on September 23, 2025. Both return to the same building next week — with Netanyahu and Gulf leaders in tow, and wars on every agenda. Credit: Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok, via Wikimedia Commons (released for publication by news organizations). Next week, the most important diplomatic real estate in the world will be a few hallways in Manhattan. The UN General Assembly's general debate opens in New York, and the guest list reads like a crisis roll call: Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Benjamin Netanyahu, Russia's Sergei Lavrov, Gulf leaders, and — via video, because Washington denied him a visa — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Each of them is coming with an ask. And nearly every ask runs through the same man: the President of the United States. It may be the highest-stakes UN week in years — and, as Reuters noted this week , a breakthrough in the stal...