| Kenya As
UNSC President Is Asked For Press Access
No Answer, Defers To Censor Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Sept 30
– With Kenya taking
over presidency of the UN
Security Council on October 1,
on September 29 Inner City
Press wrote to the Kenyan
Mission to the UN to request
access to its October 1 press
conference by Ambassador
Martin Kimani.
Inner City
Press wrote to the Mission and
to its listed spokesman, James
Ndirangu Waweru.
More than 24
hours later, nothing -
inconsistent, to say the
least, with Kenya's 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.
There is no
commitment by the UN
Secretariat to even respond to
a polite law firm letter
seeking access to Inner City
Press, see video.
See also Press
Freedom Tracker and The
Independent (UK)
The Kenyan
Mission and Kenya 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
Kenya and the Kenyan Mission
to provide access.
Watch this
site.
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