President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attend the U.N. General Assembly's High-Level Week events to advance American values next week.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will promote "American values" during the U.N. General Assembly's High-Level Week events on Monday and Tuesday. File Photo by Aaron Schwartz/UPI UPI

Sept. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attend the U.N. General Assembly's High-Level Week events to advance American values next week.

The "American values" that Trump and Rubio will promote during High-Level week include "peace, sovereignty and liberty," State Department spokesman Thomas Pigott said in a prepared statement on Friday.

The U.N. event begins Monday and runs through Thursday.

Rubio "will use High-Level Week as an opportunity to discuss the need for the United Nations to get back to basics, reorienting the organization to its origins as an effective tool for advancing peace to conflicts and mutual cooperation," Pigott added.

High-Level Week involves global leaders and heads of state, who address global matters during meetings, forums and a debate from Monday through Thursday.

Rubio will meet with "key counterparts to discuss shared security interests, bringing peace to conflicts and mutual cooperation," Pigott said.

He also seeks to return the United Nations to its "origins as an effective tool for advancing peace, not a bloated bureaucracy that compromises national sovereignty and pushes destructive ideologies, like [diversity, equity and inclusion]," he added.

Rubio's High-Level Week attendance comes after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed by an alleged leftist who accused Kirk of spreading hate as he visited college campuses.

Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA, which sponsored the "Prove Me Wrong" event on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, Utah, when he was shot and killed while exercising his First Amendment right to free speech and invited those who disagreed with his views to do the same and prove him wrong during an open debate.

Kirk's high-profile murder spurred many who opposed his viewpoints to celebrate his death, and Rubio announced he had begun revoking visas of foreign nationals who celebrated Kirk's death and other events, such as taking over campus buildings and engaging in anti-Semitism due to the war between U.S.-supported ally Israel and Hamas.

"We are not in the business of inviting people to visit our country who are going to be involved in negative and destructive behavior," Rubio said.

The State Department also revoked the visas of members of the Palestine Liberation Organization the Palestinian Authority and denied outstanding visa requests from their members last month, which blocked their participation in the U.N. General Assembly.

State Department officials accused the PLO and PA of undermining efforts to reach an effective cease-fire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Gaza.

Rubio on Monday affirmed the nation's relationship with Israel and Arab states and efforts to end the war that began when Hamas attacked, killed, raped and kidnapped Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023.

His diplomatic trip occurred after Israel targeted Hamas leadership in the Qatari capital of Doha, in a Sept. 9 airstrike, which Hamas said killed five of its members.

The United Nations' 80th General Assembly session started on Sept. 9 at the U.N. world headquarters in New York City and runs through Sept. 30.