Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is to address the UN General Assembly in New York in July, Buckingham Palace and the British Mission to the United Nations announced Friday.
Buckingham Place said the Queen will address the UN General assembly on 6th July, following a 9-day visit to Canada from June 28 to July 6 with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. The Queen is scheduled to return to London immediately after her address to the UN.
Meanwhile, the British Mission to the UN said the Queen will address the General assembly in her capacity as head Head of State of the United Kingdom and 15 other nations, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Apart from the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the British Queen is also the head of state for Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
The Queen's speech at the UN General Assembly in June would be her first in more than 50 years. The last time the British Monarch addressed the UN General Assembly was in 1957.
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