| Reynaldo Naval Who Helped Journalists
From Kosovo To The UN Gate Passes at 59 RIP
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE / SDNY,
Sept 24 – Reynaldo
Naval was the son of a
journalist, and he spent year
trying to help journalists
including Inner City Press
(until it was thrown out of
the UN under Antonio
Guterres).
Christmas
after Christmas, Rey would be
one of the only UN staffers
near the UN Spokesperson's
office as the final UN Budget
Committee meetings strenched
past midnight. (It was while
covering just such a meeting
that Inner City Press was
roughed up and ousted by
Guterres' UN Security, and
banned since).
Before
running the UN Media Documents
Centre, Rey helped establish
public information centers at
the UN peacekeeping mission in
Kosovo in the wake of the 1999
war.
Here's a bit more of what
Navel told The Rappler, about
what his native Philippines
needs to do: “We tend to
rationalize and be reactive.
We have to address the lack of
preparation. We cannot just
say, ‘Oh, the UN, NGOs, and
USAID will be there.’ Every
year, calamities hit us so we
already have an idea what to
do.”
Now, sadly,
Reynaldo Naval has passed
away, at 59 years old. He will
be missed.
He was better
than the UN -- for example, he
made it a point to try to get
UN Security Council documents
to a Haiti journalist outside
the gate, who had been thrown
out of the UN under
then-Spokesperson Michele
Montas and the UN
Correspondents Association,
and kept out under Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa Fleming.
Rey felt this
journalist should be treated
like one. Rest in Peace.
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