http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/world/barack-obama-unga-2016-united-nations.html 2016-09-20 10:14:09 President Obama: A Farewell, Highlighting Diplomacy and Refugees In the last United Nations General Assembly session of his presidency, Mr. Obama will hark back to an agenda he laid out in his first General Assembly address. === For In between, Mr. Obama will pack in obligatory meetings with other leaders, including those of Israel, Iraq, Nigeria and Colombia. But his focus will be on recalling his diplomatic achievements and arguing that they can be used as a guide for future challenges. In doing so, he will hark back to the agenda he laid out in his Climate change, nuclear nonproliferation and Middle East peace all featured prominently in that speech, and Mr. Obama can claim credit on two of those. He helped push through the The refugee crisis, fueled by bitter conflicts in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and elsewhere, also lays bare Mr. Obama’s struggle to wind down old wars and avoid new ones. He will call on countries to open their doors wider to refugees and to spend more to integrate them as new residents. But the United States remains comparatively stingy in the number of refugees it has committed to take in: 110,000 in 2017, up from 85,000 this year. As Mr. Obama says his goodbyes, there will be constant reminders of the turbulent race to succeed him — not least in his schedule, which includes two Democratic Party fund-raisers in Manhattan.