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Censorship Alliance Can Sleep In UN
Overnight UNresponsive on Press Freedom
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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June 3 – At today's UN,
everything is corrupted. UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres, who omitted from his
financial disclosure his link
to convicted UN briber CEFC
China Energy, threw out and
bans the Press which asked
about it.
His head of media
accreditation Melissa Fleming,
and his UN Correspondents
Association, have refused to
answer a polite letter
about this censorship from the
pro bono law firm Quinn
Emanuel. Video here.
Now while
complicit in banning
investigative Press from the
UN, the United Nations
Correspondents Association
(UNCA) and its holdover
Valeria Robecco of ANSA News
Agency brag about its resident
correspondent members being
able to sleep in "their"
taxpayer funded offices after
hours and on the weekends:
"Dear colleagues, As you may
have followed Wednesday's noon
briefing announcement, UN
Security has lifted
restrictions on media access
to UNHQ during the weekend and
after hours. This is a great
outcome considering all of
your concerns and pushback.
UNCA has been very committed
to this issue and have
been following up with MALU
and the Spokesperson's office
to ensure that these
infringements be addressed.
Please be advised that if you
need to bring in non-resident
correspondents during after
hours and weekends, you will
still have to go through MALU
as you did in the past. Thank
you for your attention and
enjoy your weekend. Valeria
Robecco President, United
Nations Correspondents
Association."
How can a
"Correspondents Association"
refuse to answer a polite
letter from a major law firm
about why they support UN
censorship? We'll have more on
this.
This is the
Executive Committee on UNCA
which can't even answer a law
firm letter about their role
in UN censorship:
Those
in receipt of
the first,
friendly letter:
melissa.fleming@un.org,
marialuiza.viotti@un.org,
mekel@un.org,
malu@un.org,
and UNCA
Valeria
Robecco, ANSA
News Agency,
Nabil Abi
Saab,
Al-Araby,
Jianguo Ma,
Xinhua News
Agency, Edith
Lederer,
Associated,
Giampaolo
Pioli,
Quotidiano,
Linda Fasulo,
Ibtisam Azem,
Al-Araby
Al-Jadeed
Newspaper, Ali
Barada, France
24, Asharq
Al-Awsat;
Oscar Bolanos,
OMB News,
Sherwin
Bryce-Pease,
SABC South
Africa -
Alexander
Hassanein, The
Tokyo Shimbun,
Maria
Khrenova,
TASS, Philippe
Rater, Agence
France-Presse,
Kaori Yoshida,
Nikkei, Betul
Yuruk, Anadolu
Agency at
president@unca.com,
valeria.robecco@gmail.com,
nabisaab@gmail.com,
mjg222888@gmail.com,
elederer@ap.org,
giampioli@aol.com,
lindafasulo@gmail.com,
ibtisam.azem@alaraby.co.uk,
abarada@hotmail.com,
ombyvozque@gmail.com,
s.brycepease@gmail.com,
alexander@tokyoshimbun.us,
khrenova_m@tass.ru,
philippe.rater@afp.com,
kaori.yoshida@nex.nikkei.com,
byuruk@aa.com.tr
Three
of the 15 are
from French
media, two
from Italy,
with various
dictatorships
represented.
Once-newly
"elected" is
Carrie Neuton
of Le Monde,
with 32 votes.
She is now
responsible
for the UNCA
board's lack
of response to
a law firm's
letter about
their / her
role in
censorship.
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