UN GATE / SDNY,
Feb 26 - The United Nations,
its often unaccountable senior
leadership like Fabrizio
Hochschild and always
sychophantic press corps all
seem pleased by the prospect
of increased funding from
Foggy Bottom and ultimately
the American people. But will
the UN administration
belatedly live up to
principles like those of the
First Amendment, for example
content neutral press access?
So far,
no.
On
February 25 new Ambassador
Linda Thomas-Greenfield held a
stake-out by the UN Security
Council. Inner City Press has
questioned US Ambassadors from
Zalmay
Khalilzad through Susan
Rice and Samantha
Power to Nikki
Haley. But now, due to
critical coverage of and
questions to Antonio Guterres,
it is banned.
So, an
investigative US-based media
is blocked from questioning a
US official. Can this be
legal?
Here for
now is the Mission's read-out
of Day 1: "The below is
attributable to United States
Mission Spokesperson Olivia
Dalton:
Yesterday, Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield presented
her credentials to UN
Secretary-General António
Guterres. Following the
ceremony, the two met to
discuss the important
leadership role the United
States plays in the UN system,
the global pandemic, climate
change, humanitarian issues,
and human rights. She then
made a brief statement to the
UN press corps.
In her first engagement as the
Representative of the United
States, Ambassador
Thomas-Greenfield held a town
hall with United States
Mission staff where she made
brief remarks and introduced
new members of her executive
team. During an informal
Q&A, she emphasized
President Biden’s core foreign
policy values and the
significant role the Mission
plays to represent the
American people.
Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield
met with Ambassador Barbara
Woodward, the Permanent
Representative of the United
Kingdom to the United Nations,
and discussed the significance
of the longstanding U.S.-UK
partnership and shared
priorities, including
coordinating on COVID-19
response, global humanitarian
challenges, climate change,
and other
issues.
Ambassador
Thomas-Greenfield also met
with Ambassador Nicholas de
Rivière, the Permanent
Representative of France to
the United Nations, and
discussed the importance of
working cooperatively to
address urgent global
challenges and mutual
priorities, including the
coronavirus pandemic, gender
equality, and climate change."
No discussion of
ensuring that Guterres doesn't
just strong arm a second term
in a way that makes a mockery
of the pronouncement on
democracy by the UN - &
P3?
Revisit the canned Q&A in
the UN noon briefing of
November 23, which again
banned Inner City Press - and
its questions about UN
corruption and sexual abuse, Cameroon,
Honduras
and other UN failures,
here.
Inner City Press
before corrupt UNSG Antonio
Guterres had it thrown
out without due process
or appeal covered not only the
UN and its "Peacekeeping"
missions in Haiti and
elsewhere, but also Antony
Blinken (here,
meeting Prince Zeid) and Linda
Thomas-Greenfield (here,
after a trip to Somalia; Inner
City Press covered the UN
Security Council trip to
Djibouti).
On February 25,
the IMF took Inner City Press'
questions on Sudan and
Cambodia via WebEx, here.
Inner City Press also spoke
for half an hour on Honduras
UNeTV, including about the
Biden Administration,
Secretary Antony Blinken and
Honduras, and SDNY: here.
The UN banned
Inner City Press, including
from the stakeout by the US
Ambassador. Again, can this be
legal? Is it sustainable? Is
it credible? Watch this site.
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