SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 20 – With US
President Joe Biden and
Secretary of State Antony
Blinken now in New York City
for the UN General Assembly
for which no proof of
vaccination is required
(Brazil's proudly unvaccinated
Bolsonaro is the first
speaker), on September 20 US
Department of State Bureau of
International Organization
Affairs Senior Bureau Official
Erica Barks-Ruggles held a
press call.
She spoke
about the importance of
vaccination. But what of UN
Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres
rebuffing New York City law
that proof of vaccination
should be required to enter
the UNGA hall?
And what about
Guterres and his (American)
head of media accreditation
banning Inner City Press and
others, in favor of a small
group of disproportionately
state media and
retirees? Podcast here.
Inner City
Press wrote to the State
Department and US Mission to
the UN in August about this,
well in advance of the UNGA
High Level week. It cited the
law firm Quinn Emanuel's
letter to the UN and its
partners, video here
But no action, even as
Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield on September
20 gave a speech about sexual
violence, another issue on
which Guterres covers up the
UN's abuses.
Barks-Ruggles
declined to say if Blinken
will try to meet with his
French counter-part; on Iran
she said the UN will stick
with the Vienna format. There
was almost nothing about
Africa, much less Cameroon and
Nigeria or the coup in Guinea,
nor about Haiti.
But Inner City
Press will continue to pursue
all these issues - watch this
site.
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