As
UN's Amina J. Mohammed Praises
Saudi Event on Women, Ignores
Free Press Petition Like SG
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Periscope
UNITED
NATIONS, March 14 --
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, on
March 13
his Deputy Amina J.
Mohammed had
one,
see
below. Then on
March 14
Mohammed came to
speak at a
women's week
event sponsored
by Saudi Arabia.
Without
acknowledging
the irony, or
yet answering
petitions
for rules for
press freedom,
Mohammed
praised the exhibit, which
she said she
saw being built on Sunday
(when her
native Nigeria
held an
event in the
UN, which
is closed to
the Press on
the weekends).
Periscope here.
Now her UN has
admitted it
investigates those
who blow the whistle
on UN
wrongdoing, here.
How long can
the
stonewalling
go on? On
March 13 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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