Christodoulides to address UN general assembly on September 23

President Nikos Christodoulides will make his annual speech at the United Nations general assembly in New York on September 23, according to a provisional list of speakers published by the UN. He will be the 14th of 21 speakers during that day’s morning session, which is set to begin at 9pm local time (4pm Cyprus time) and end at 2. 45pm local time (9. 45pm Cyprus time. A representative of every UN member state typically makes a speech at some point during the week.

Other noteworthy speeches with regard to Cyprus will come from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, from British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, and from Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who Erdogan will be the fourth speaker overall and address the morning session on September 22, while Burnham will speak during the afternoon session of the same day, and Mitsotakis will speak during the afternoon session on September 24. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be the general assembly’s first speaker, while the United States’ Donald Trump is second on the list. France’s Emmanuel Macron will be the penultimate speaker of the September 22 morning session, while Christodoulides will be preceded the following morning by high-profile international figures including Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian, while Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy will speak later during the same day. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be the final speaker of the morning session on September 24, while European Council President Antonio Costa and Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin are set to speak on the same day, with Ireland the current holder of the Council of the EU’s rotating presidency. Chinese Vice President Han Zheng will be the first of the speakers on September 26, with Russian Foreign…