(AKI) - The director of Egyptian state television broadcaster's sports channel has urged human rights organisation to appeal to the United Nations to guarantee the Egyptian public's "right" to watch televised World Cup matches. "Everyone has a right to watch the games," Hussein Abdel Fattah, who heads the channel Nile Sport, told reporters on Tuesday. "Human rights groups and a powerful institution such as the UN have to intercede with FIFA (the international football federation) to assure that this happens," he said. The target of Fattah's appeal is the private Arab Radio and Television (ART) network which has bought the exclusive rights to broadcast the World Cup which kicks off in Germany on Friday. Attempts by the Egyptian government to buy the broadcasting rights from ART have stalled. ART, which is owned by the Saudi Ar Emir Saleh Kamel, has also clinched the rights to broadcast matches for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.