At
UN As Deputy Amina J. Mohammed
Disses Foreign Minister, Ignores
Free Press Petition Like SG
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, March 13 --
As UN Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres has gotten
more and more opaque
about his meeting
and photo ops,
including on March
12 excluding the
Press for and
refusing to read-out
his meeting with US
National Security
Adviser H.R.
McMaster, now his
Deputy had one.
Liechtenstein's
Ambassador escorted
his Foreign Minister
Aurelia Frick up to
the south side of
the UN's 38 floor on
March 13, for a
photo op and
meeting. First it
was moved from 4:45
to 5 pm. Then, after
the Liechtenstein
delegation was
ushered into Deputy
Secretary General
Amina J. Mohammed's
conference room, the
waiting began. The
Press was ushered
in, witnessed
impatience and
consternation, and
was taken back out.
Finally Amina J.
Mohammed came up,
offering apologies;
the Press was
ushered into her
office for a fast
photo op against
flags. An entire
team has desks
outside her office,
making her failure
to respond to basic
petitions for
content neutral
media rules all the
more difficult to
understand.
Guterres, too - at
this time, he was
down in the UN
Department of Public
Information's studio
recording video
messages, one after
the other. This is
how the 38 floor is
working, or not
working, in today's
UN.
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