Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to swap the slot for his UN General Assembly address with the president of Cyprus in order to speak during Israeli prime time and before Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Netanyahu is scheduled to speak at what will be 9:30 p.m. in Israel. According to Channel 10, his office had reached out to Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades who is slated to give his address at 6:00 p.m. — a time where Israeli news channels would likely cut away from broadcasts in order to carry an address live.
Such a trade would also have allowed Netanyahu to speak before Abbas, who is supposed to address the General Assembly three spots before the Israeli leader. Anastasiades, however, is the 6th speaker — well ahead of the PA leader who is positioned at number 15.
Channel 10 reports that while the Cypriot leader was said to have agreed to the trade, UN organizers rejected the move. The order of speakers has presidents addressing the body first, followed by prime ministers and Netanyahu’s trade would have tampered with that arrangement.
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