New York: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is expected to demand that the world unite to root out terrorism and ensure international peace and security when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly on September 25.

Woven around the Prime Minister's scheduled participation in the annual session of UN General Assembly in New York are a number of meetings he will have with world leaders, including with US President George W Bush.

With twin bomb blasts in Mumbai still fresh in the memory, the theme of combating terrorism is most likely to dominate Vajpayee's utterances at the General Assembly as well as during his meetings with world leaders.

The Prime Minister, who arrives in New York on September 19, is expected to refer to terrorist attacks in different parts of the world during the last year and assert that no region or country is immune to terrorists. Hence the need for coordinated global fight against the scourge.

Iraq, Palestinian issues, need for multilateral approach to conflicts and to economic questions and importance of reforming the United Nations including expansion of the Security Council would be the other major subjects on Vajpayee's agenda during his week-long visit to the US.

An area of concern to India is resurgence of Taleban in Afghanistan and that concern would be reflected in the discussions.

PTI