Queen Elizabeth to give rare speech to UN

By the CNN Wire Staff

July 6, 2010 -- Updated 0511 GMT (1311 HKT)

Queen Elizabeth II will before before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Queen's speech to General Assembly will be the first since 1957
• She will come to New York from Canada
• She will also visit Ground Zero

(CNN) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will address the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday afternoon, her first speech there in more than 50 years.

The queen has addressed the General Assembly only once before, in 1957.

The queen will also visit Ground Zero on Tuesday evening to lay a wreath at the site of the September 11, 2001, terror attack.

She will address the United Nations in her capacity as head of state of 16 U.N. member states, the mission said in a news release.

Queen Elizabeth is head of state for the United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.

Video: Queen Elizabeth to address the U.N.

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The queen's July 6 speech comes at the conclusion of a trip to Canada with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.

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