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Week 2022 UN Limits Info To Few In House
UN Correspondents still Banning Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UN GATE, August
14 – A month before the 2022
UN General Assembly week, the
UN won't say publicly what the
press access rules will be.
Only its dwindling number of
in-house correspondents does
it tell.
On
August 6, 2022, this was sent
out to the insider, several of
whom forwarded it to Inner
City Press which remains banned
from the UN after questioning
the accuracy of UNSG Antonio
Guterres' financial
disclosures, which omitted his
links to UN bribery firm CEFC
China Energy, convicted in the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York:
"Dear
colleagues, MALU sent
out a note yesterday regarding
access during the high-level
period of the 77th session of
the General Assembly (UNGA).
If you did not receive it
please let us know and we will
share it with you. UNCA
is discussing these details
with MALU and we are doing our
best to ensure improved access
compared to 2021. If
anyone has particular concerns
or questions please reach out
to MALU directly. Thank
you for your attention.
Valeria Robecco President,
United Nations Correspondents
Association."
So the UN
Media Accreditation and
Liaison Unit, overseen by
Melissa Fleming, only sent it
plans for a supposedly global
event to less than 100
correspondents, many of them
retired. A week later, still
nothing to any wider group,
much less on the MALU website.
The UN is dying.
And the
above quoted UN Correspondents
Association leadership, and
Fleming, have still not
responded to a polite letter
seeking an end to censorship
sent to them (Fleming and each
UNCA Executive Committee
member) by pro bono law firm
Quinn Emanual, here.
Inner City
Press will be formally seeking
its right to entry to cover
UNGA 2022. Watch this
site.
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