Bono has done good work. Funny meeting him on the campaign trail for the states though.

 

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be meeting with several heads of state beginning Tuesday, when she heads to New York where the United Nations General Assembly holds its 63rd session.

The first-term governor, seeking to fill a rather empty foreign policy resume, is scheduled to meet with Afghan president Hamid Karzai and Colombian president Alvaro Uribe on Tuesday.

She holds talks with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvilli and Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko together in one meeting before separate sit-downs with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari and Indian Prime Minister Manhoman Singh.

Palin will also meet with U2 lead singer Bono, who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work to end the AIDS pandemic in Africa.

Palin, a former beauty queen and mother of five children, has become the primary asset of the McCain campaign, drawing crowds at rallies as well as media attention that once was largely devoted to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). But the governor is also facing criticisms, least of which about her foreign policy credentials. She has never met a foreign head of state and received her first passport only last year.

She was set to join Jewish groups at a rally in front of the United Nations building in New York on Monday to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's scheduled address before the international assembly. But organizers withdrew their invitation last week, saying they "decided not to have any American political personalities appear." The decision came just days after Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), whom Palin has praised, canceled her own appearance at the rally.