| Ireland As
UNSC President Is Asked For Press Access,
Defers Entirely To Conflicted Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, August
30 – With Ireland
taking over presidency of the
UN Security Council on
September 1, on August 30
Inner City Press wrote to the
Irish Mission to the UN to
request access to its
September 1 press
conference.
The Irish
Mission's Alternate Political
Coordinator and Spokesperson
Eoghan McSwiney wrote back,
"We would refer your request
for access to the UN and to UN
press conferences to the Media
Accreditation and Liaison Unit
of the UN Secretariat." In
context, this is Kafka-esque
collution in UN censorship.
Inner City Press has replied:
"With all due
respect, that is not in
keeping with your duty as
President of the UN Security
Council. Inner City
Press covered the UN and UNSC
under Kofi Annan and Ban
Ki-moon then was thrown out
under Antonio Guterres after
asking him directly about [,
among other things including
Cameroon,] the omission
from his financial disclosure
covering 2016 of his link,
through Lisbon's Gulbenkian
Foundation which paid him
money, to convicted UN briber
CEFC China Energy.
This was and is a
legitimate journalistic
question however Inner City
Press has been banned by
Guterres and his USG Melissa
Fleming.
Your current
response is Kafka-esque
collusion in light of UN
Spokesman Dujarric recently
saying, in the briefing room,
that there is no commitment by
the UN Secretariat to even
response to a polite law firm
letter seeking access to Inner
City Press, see video.
See also Press
Freedom Tracker and The
Independent (UK)
The Irish Mission
and Ireland have a duty to not
collude in censorship, and to
take questions from media.
Inner City Press is permitted
(in fact, invited) to put
WebEx questions to the IMF
briefings, see below, and is
accredited at the SDNY Federal
court here in New York.
So it is up to
you and your Mission to
provide access. This response
make you aware / puts you on
notice of the conflict of
interest that has resulted in
Inner City Press' questions on
abandonment of UNAMA
staff, sexual
abuse by peacekeepers,
and corruption by the UN
Secretariat being
blocked.
You should either
get this reversed by the UN
Secretariat by Sept 1, or in
the interim provide the WebEx
code for your press
conference(s). On
deadline, thank you for your
attention."
Watch this
site.
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