Sep 14, 2006 (Reuters) - First lady Laura Bush will have her own agenda when she and President George W. Bush leave on Monday for the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York.

While her husband is in meetings with the leaders of Malaysia, El Salvador, Honduras, Tanzania, France and Iraq, Laura Bush will host a round-table discussion on Myanmar, formerly Burma, and a global literacy conference, the first lady's office said.

The United States wants the U.N. Security Council to deal with Myanmar, whose junta government has jailed opponents, persecuted minorities and sent refugees fleeing into neighboring states.

Laura Bush on Tuesday will host the discussion to try to gain support for a proposed U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution to pressure Myanmar to have an "all-inclusive political process" and release detained Nobel Peace Prize-winning opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

She will also call on the Myanmar government to ensure access and security for humanitarian workers, take steps to end ethnic violence and address HIV/AIDS and drugs and human trafficking.

U.N. and U.S. officials plus representatives from nongovernmental organizations that work on the Thai-Burmese border were expected to be included.

On Monday, Laura Bush will push global literacy at a conference at the New York Public Library. Later she will join women entrepreneurs to ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange.