Queen Elizabeth to visit U.N., Ground Zero

NEW YORK, July 5 (UPI) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will talk about the world's progress and "challenges that remain" in a speech to the United Nations, a government spokeswoman said.

The queen is to address U.N. delegates during a visit to New York City Tuesday.

It will be the second time in the 84-year-old queen's reign that she has spoken at the United Nations and her third visit to the city.

"She will be taking a global perspective," Harriet Cross of the United Kingdom's Mission to the United Nations told The New York Times. "She will touch on progress made since she was last here, and challenges that remain."

The queen will fly into New York from Canada and has Tuesday stops at the Ground Zero construction site and a memorial to the British subjects killed on Sept. 11, 2001. She has no public remarks scheduled, The Times said.

The queen previously visited New York in 1957 and 1976.