Trump to meet with Egyptian president Monday: campaign

Donald Trump will meet Monday in New York with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Republican presidential candidate's first meeting with a leader from the Muslim world.

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had already scheduled a meeting with Sisi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting, which kicked off Monday with a summit on the global refugee crisis.

Trump has called for "extreme vetting" of refugees entering the United States along with a ban against people from "terrorist nations."

When Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi convene, it will be the Republican presidential candidate's first meeting with a leader from the Muslim world ©Mandel Ngan (AFP/File)

Trump's meeting with Sisi will take place at the end of the day, according to a campaign official.

He was supposed to travel first to Fort Myers, Florida for a rally.

He had alluded to meetings with foreign leaders in an interview with Fox television earlier in the day.

"I don't want to comment specifically on who but a couple of people are coming over. I've already met with a couple," he said.

But the meeting with Sisi appeared to be a response to Clinton, a former secretary of state who announced last week she would be meeting with the Egyptian leader as well as Ukraine's President Petro Porochenko.