UNITED
NATIONS, July
11, 2104 -- Two
days after the
UN cut from
its transcript
the advocacy
of the Free UN
Coalition for
Access to get
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon to
hold more
question and
answer sessions
with the press,
Ban's deputy
spokesperson
Farhan Haq
denied this
censorship.
Inner City
Press asked
Haq
specifically
about the omission
from the July
9, 2014
transcript
of the
Free UN
Coalition for
Access and
its comment
about taking
questions. Haq
replied that
whatever is
audible is
included in
the
transcript. Video here.
Not only is
this not the
case as to
July 9, 2014
-- it was blatantly
disproved for
example on
July 3,
2013. At
that day's noon
briefing with
Deputy
Secretary
General Jan
Eliasson,
before asking
about
Afghanistan
and Sri Lanka,
Inner City
Press thanked
Eliasson “on
behalf of the
Free UN
Coalition for
Access.”
UN video
here, from
Minute 19:44.
But
when the UN
put out its
transcript,
the name of
FUNCA was cut
out:
“Q: I
want to thank
you for doing
this briefing
so soon after
you got back,
and also I
hope that we
will have some
questions on
more general
UN items,
after, it
should be...
There is DRC,
Haiti and
other things
going on.”
By
contrast, the
UN
(mis)
transcription
left in the
name of the
old UNCA,
as recited by
its 2013
president
Pamela Falk of
CBSNews.com:
“Q: Mr.
Deputy
Secretary-General,
welcome on
behalf of the
UN
Correspondents’
Association,
welcome back
and thank you
for the
briefing.”
Who in
the UN decided
what to cut
out of what
purports to be
a transcript?
What is the
basis of the
deletions? If
they cut this,
would they
they cut or
change whole
questions?
Answers? We
asked.
How far
with the UN go
to try to ban
dissent and to
censor those
who question
it? And what
does it
undermine?
Watch this
site.
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