As
W. Sahara
Discussed,
Polisario Is
Told It Can't
Speak on UNTV,
UNclear
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 30 --
With the UN
Security
Council
meeting behind
closed doors
Wednesday
about Western
Sahara, the
Frente
Polisario
complained to
Inner City
Press that
they were told
they could not
speak at the
UN Television
stakeout.
In
the past, they
have,
including one
time that the
then-head of
the UN
Media
Accreditation
and Liaison
Unit, a
Moroccan
national, had
the
cameras turned
off. (Click
here for
that Inner
City Press story). But
since then,
Polisario has
spoken at the
stakeout,
often before
or
after
Morocco's
Ambassador
Loulichki.
Click
here to view
UN video of
Polisario
stakeout in
Nov 2012.
But
now something
has changed.
Inner City
Press checked,
and learned
that
UN Security
this time was
told that
Polisario
should not be
allowed
to speak. No
one wanted to
say where the
order came
from.
The
Media
Accreditation
and Liaison
unit only has
jurisdiction
on the
media side of
the railing.
UN Television
camera-people,
those
predating the
new outside
contractor
Team People,
remembers
Polisario
speaking.
So
where did the
order come
from?
The Free UN Coalition for Access @FUNCA_info
contends that
the rules
about this
should be made
clear and
transparent.
We note
without
rancor, simply
as a fact,
that among
UNCA's Executive
Committee is a
representative
of Moroccan
state media;
the former
MALU chief
from Morocco
was also with
UNCA,
including
known as the
UN Censorship
Alliance.Watch
this site.
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