Orlando, Fla. –

According to a Palin campaign aide, this Wednesday in separate meetings Sarah Palin will meet with Iraqi President Talabani, Georgian President Saakashvelli, Ukrainian President Yuschenko, Pakistani President Zardari, and Indian Prime Minister Singh.

She will also meet with rock star and humanitarian, Bono on the same day.

As previously reported, her meetings with world leaders start Tuesday with separate meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, and Dr. Kissinger.

The meetings will be in New York and coincide with the United Nations’ General Assembly, which meets this week and attracts leaders from all over the world. The meetings are an effort by the campaign to boost Palin’s foreign policy credentials and show her ability to hob knob with foreign leaders.

A Palin campaign aide explains what they expect, “It’s a great opportunity for Governor Palin to meet and discuss pressing issues facing the world with the same leaders she will interact with as Vice-President.”

Her lack of foreign policy experience has been widely criticized since John McCain’s selection of Palin as his running mate.

*UPDATE*

Orlando, Fl–

Fox News’ Hunter Ryan has learned that Sarah Palin’s meeting with Karzai will be on Tuesday. On the same day she has also scheduled separate meetings with Henry Kissinger and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

Orlando, FL –

Sarah Palin will meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai next week in New York, according to a senior advisor to Palin. The meeting coincides with the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.

Palin’s lack of foreign policy experience has been criticized since John McCain selected her as his running mate. The meeting with Karzai is an effort to boost Palin’s foreign policy credentials and show her ability to hob knob with foreign leaders.

We reported earlier in the week that Palin would travel to New York during the UN’s General Assembly, which meets every year and attracts leaders from all over the world.

This comes a day after Palin responded to being disinvited to a rally protesting Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s address to the General Assembly. Palin blamed “Democrat partisans” for the rescinding of the invitation. But, the groups putting on the rally cited how overly politicized the event had become and that the main goal of the protest was being over shadowed. The Obama campaign denies being involved in putting pressure on the groups. The camp says that they would have sent a surrogate to the protest as well.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Seeking to counter Sen. Obama’s major foreign policy address today, Sen. McCain pounced on his Democratic rival for announcing his strategy for Iraq and Afghanistan before he is set to travel to the two war zones.

“I note that he is speaking today about his plans for Iraq and Afghanistan before he has even left, before he has talked to General Petraeus, before he has seen the progress in Iraq, and before he has set foot in Afghanistan for the first time,” McCain told about 200 voters at a town hall meeting in Albuquerque, in remarks originally set to be delivered Thursday but moved up to coincide with Obama’s speech. “In my experience, fact-finding missions usually work best the other way around. First you assess the facts on the ground, then you present a new strategy. So this is certainly a departure to what I have usually done.”

The presumptive GOP nominee also criticized Obama’s recent statements about the surge as taking flip-flopping to a “new level”–pointing to Obama’s remarks that he had “no doubt” the military surge would succeed despite other statements to the contrary.

“My friends, flip-floppers all over the world are enraged..it give new meaning (to the term),” McCain told the town hall, later adding aboard his bus that Obama’s evolving position on Iraq “exceeds every (flip flop) that I have ever observed and I have seen some egregious ones.”

His criticism came during a speech where he called the current situation in Afghanistan “not acceptable” and laid out his “comprehensive strategy for victory,” which includes sending up to 15,000 additional troops to that battlefront in order to turnaround recent Taliban advances.

“Our commanders on the ground in Afghanistan say that they need at least three additional brigades. Thanks to the success of the surge, these forces are becoming available, and our commanders in Afghanistan must get them. But sending more forces, by itself, that by itself is not enough,” McCain said, later clarifying that the brigades would not just be American but be made up of a combination of U.S. and NATO forces. But the GOPer added today that more troops is not the only solution to bringing down the violence.

“What we need in Afghanistan is exactly what General Petraeus brought to Iraq: a nationwide civil-military campaign that is focused on providing security for the population. Today no such integrated plan exists. When I am commander-in-chief, it will,” he added.

Speaking to reporters aboard his bus, McCain also had some uncharacteristically tough words for Afghan leader Hamid Karzai, stating that he has not met U.S. expectations.

“Karzai has not been effective. Karzai has not been the strong leader that we hoped he would be,” McCain said. “He’s a very fine man–just not has (exercised the) strong leadership that we would (have) hoped.”