UN GATE / SDNY,
Jan 26 - Amid the insurrection
court cases Inner City Press
is covering
while still banned
from the United Nations
which it has covered for a
decade, now on January 26 more
staff picks for the US Mission
to the UN, including Jeffrey
DeLaurentis whom Inner City
Press questioned and covered
in the past, on Sudan,
North
Korea, Eritrea
and other UN Security Council
agenda items.
From
today's list:
Ambassador
Jeffrey
DeLaurentis,
Acting
Alternate
Representative
for Special
Political
Affairs
During his
28-year career
in the U.S.
Foreign
Service,
Ambassador
DeLaurentis
worked almost
exclusively as
a multilateral
diplomat at
the United
Nations in New
York and
Geneva, and on
Western
Hemisphere
issues...
Sohini
Chatterjee, Senior Policy
Advisor
Sohini Chatterjee most
recently served on the faculty
at Columbia University’s
School of International and
Public Affairs, as a Legal
Advisor for Independent
International Legal Advocates
and a Senior Associate at the
Center for Strategic and
International Studies.
Olivia Alair Dalton,
Spokesperson and
Communications
Director
Olivia Alair Dalton most
recently led communications
for the Biden-Harris
Transition’s Confirmations
Team. Over the past 15 years,
she has served as a
spokesperson and
communications strategist for
leading public officials and
organizations, including both
of President Obama’s
presidential campaigns, former
First Lady Michelle Obama,
former U.S. Transportation
Secretary Ray LaHood, and the
Human Rights Campaign.
Aditi Gorur, Policy
Advisor
Aditi Gorur was previously the
Director of the Protecting
Civilians in Conflict Program
at the Stimson Center, where
her work focused on UN
peacekeeping, conflict
prevention, and the protection
of civilians in armed
conflict.
Laurence Pevsner,
Speechwriter
Laurence Pevsner was most
recently a director at the
speechwriting and strategy
firm West Wing Writers, where
he wrote speeches and
strategic communications for
dozens of world leaders in
politics, business,
entertainment, and
philanthropy.
Kelly
Razzouk, Deputy Chief of Staff
for
Policy
Kelly L. Razzouk has over a
decade of experience as a
senior U.S. Government
official, starting her career
as a Presidential Management
Fellow after graduating from
law school. She also
served as an advisor to
Ambassador Susan Rice and
congressional liaison in her
Washington office.
Zach
Vertin, Senior Policy
Advisor
Zach Vertin was most recently
a Fellow at the Brookings
Institution's foreign policy
program and a Lecturer at
Princeton University, where he
taught graduate courses on
international mediation and
peace processes.
Jasmine Wyatt,
Special
Assistant
Jasmine Wyatt most recently
served on the Biden-Harris
Transition’s National Security
Council Review Team and as a
Legislative and Policy Analyst
for Oversight at the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
where she led efforts to
increase diversity, equity,
and inclusion in foreign
policy.
The United
Nations, its often
unaccountable senior
leadership and sychophantic
press corps all seem pleased
by the nomination
of perceived supporters to
represent the US from January
20 on.
Witness the
canned Q&A in the UN noon
briefing of November 23, which
again banned Inner City Press
- and its questions about UN
corruption and sexual abuse, Cameroon,
Honduras
and other UN failures,
here.
Inner City Press
before corrupt UNSG Antonio
Guterres had it thrown
out without due process
or appeal covered not only the
UN and its "Peacekeeping"
missions in Haiti and
elsewhere, but also Antony
Blinken (here,
meeting Prince Zeid) and Linda
Thomas-Greenfield (here,
after a trip to Somalia; Inner
City Press covered the UN
Security Council trip to
Djibouti).
So would it
be the case that Blinken and
Thomas-Greenfield would cast a
blind eye at UN censorship
and lack of
accountability, from Cameroon
to the banning of the Press
that asks? Watch this site.
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