SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 21 – After US President
Joe Biden gave his rambling
speech in the UN General
Assembly Hall for which no
proof of vaccination is
required (Brazil's proudly
unvaccinated Bolsonaro was the
first speaker), on September
21 US Department of State held
a press call, by a
self-described Senior
Official.
Among the
questions was for the US' view
of the Taliban's request for
the country's UN credential
and seat, to give their own
speech.
The US is
on the UN Credentials
Committee, where it reached a
deal to keep Burma's targeted
ambassador in the seat (though
he was not sitting in it
September 21). The
answer was that it will take
time and won't be resolved
during "High Level Week.
(At the
SDNY courthouse which Inner
City Press covers daily while
banned from the UN, DOJ is
insisting the Taliban remain
Designated Terrorists).
The
Official also bragged about
the US' work on Armenia and
Azerbaijan, with Turkey, and
largely deflected on the
nuclear submarine rift with
France.
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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