UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday in Washington D.C., the U.S. capital, over a host of issues, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Friday.

During their meeting, Ban and Obama "are expected to discuss various issues, including climate change, the post-2015 development agenda as well as the situations in Syria and Yemen, among many others," Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here.

The secretary-general will be back in New York Tuesday afternoon.