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Russia's Putin Won't Attend UN General Assembly

by Reuters

   MOSCOW --

   Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend this month's United
   Nations General Assembly in New York, Russian news wire quoted his
   spokesman as saying on Saturday.

   U.S. President Donald Trump, a frequent critic of the United Nations,
   will seek to gather global support for reforming the world body when he
   hosts an event at U.N. headquarters in New York on September 18, a day
   before he formally addresses the 193-member organization.

   It was not immediately clear if Putin had planned to attend the event
   initially.