| Failing on
Ukraine UN Griffiths Maskless Spins
Correspondents Then Discloses COVID Not
Funds
By Matthew
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 18 –
Failing on Ukraine, UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres announced he was
sending Martin Griffiths, the
fourth Brit in a row atop the
UN's humanitarian department,
to Russia.
As Inner
City Press has noted,
Griffiths has refused to make
even the minimal public
financial disclosure
instituted by Guterres'
predecessor (and rendered
meaningless by
Guterres).
In a maskless
April 18 session in the UN
Press Briefing from which
Guterres and his spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming banned Inner City
Press, Griffiths offered wan
praise of Guterres and said
that speaking with Putin is
"above his pay grade."
Hours
later, Griffiths announced
that "I regret to say that I
tested positive for COVID
today. I am following health
guidance, cancelled travel,
and isolating at home."
While wishing
Griffiths well, Inner City
Press notes that the UN has
announced no follow up or
contract tracing. Video of 40
minute briefing here
Its UN
Correspondents Association's
most recent communication has
been to tell people not to
take photographs of its
members. We'll have more on
this.
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