Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not among the world leaders scheduled to meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next week, and it was unlikely the pair will have time in their itineraries to squeeze in a sit-down, a US official told The Times of Israel on Friday.

Trump will meet with the leaders of the UK, Mexico and Japan on Tuesday before heading back to Washington to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, the US official said.

The American president is also expected to meet with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez while in New York, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz told reporters, saying the two would hold talks on the sidelines of “a UN General Assembly leaders’ reception” that Trump will host.

Waltz did not elaborate on who was invited to that reception. The Axios news site said earlier this week that Trump was expected to meet Gulf leaders during the General Assembly to discuss the next steps in the Iran war and US ideas for a postwar strategy, with Israel’s Channel 13 news reporting Friday that Netanyahu hopes to meet with them as........

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