President Barack Obama addresses United Nations

At the United Nations, Obama planned a sweeping defense of his policy of engagement overseas.

“Today, we must affirm that our future will be determined by people like Chris Stevens, and not by his killers,” Obama says in an advance excerpt of his speech released early Tuesday by the White House.

Former president Clinton is used to having presidential candidates address his annual global forum. Both Obama and Republican challenger Sen. John McCain spoke there in 2008.

Clinton just a few weeks ago lit up the Democratic National Convention with a point-by-point rebuttal of Romney’s attacks on Obama and defense of the president’s economic record.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press

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