President Maithripala Sirisena will visit Venezuela next month ahead of his trip to New York to take part in the 71st UN General Assembly.

Sirisena will be taking part in the 17th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Caracas, Venezuela. The summit will be held on September 17th and 18th. The NAM summit was originally scheduled for July in Venezuela but was postponed, mainly due to a political and economic crisis fueled by unruly demonstrations.

Sirisena is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly on September 21.

The summit is being hosted by President Barack Obama, who will make his last address to the UN Assembly, as his term in the White House ends in January. The UN and the US are hosting back-to-back summit meetings on “Refugees and Migrants” September 19-20. It will mark the last UN Assembly for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as well, who has relinquished his office after a 10-year tenure.