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As UN's Amina J. Mohammed Laud Myanmar Per Capita Income Rise, Rohingya UNmentioned

By Matthew Russell Lee, Periscope , II

UNITED NATIONS, March 15 -- 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 on March 15, Mohammed showed up in a roped off event celebrating the "graduation" from Least Developed Country status of, among others, Myanmar for raising its per capital income. Video here. But isn't some of that due to religious / ethnic cleansing? If you chase people out, doesn't the per capita income rise? Still no answer on censorship. Her UN has now twice 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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