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UNSC Prez UK Woodword Bans Africa Qs
Including Cameroon & Hochschild For
Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, Feb 1 –
In the United Nations from
which Secretary General
Antonio Guterres has banned
Inner City Press 944 days for
asking about his complicity in
the killing of civilians in
Cameroon, poisoning them in
Haiti with cholera and COVID
in South Sudan, and their mass
imprisonment by China in
Xinjiang, on January 29 Inner
City Press wrote to the
Mission of the United Kingdom,
as incoming UN Security
Council president, with
questions including about
Cameroon, Western Sahara,
Haiti and Libya.
Inner City
Press specifically asked to be
provided the WebEx codes to be
able to ask its questions:
This is a timely
request that you sent Inner
City Press the pass code(s) to
access your UNSC Presidency
press briefing on February 1.
I have questions
to ask on what you will do
this month about the conflicts
in Cameroon, Yemen and Libya -
and on the sexual harassment
charges against Fabrizio
Hochschild on which Inner City
Press first reported in April
2019, picked up here in July
2019, for example - Inner City
Press is asking to be provided
with access / the passwords to
your UK mission's stakeouts
and press conferences this
month as UNSC President. Given
your stated focus on the rule
of law, you should ensure due
process (and access) for Press
covering the UN. Please
note that Inner City Press and
I participate in the WebEx
briefings of, for example, the
IMF here
and here.
As I
hear that you may be moving
the Council back into its
Chamber, either way I would
also like to ask you to
instruct MALU / USG-DGC
Fleming to allow me to enter
to cover it, for Inner City
Press. Please
immediately confirm receipt.
No answer -
including to this reiterated
request on January 31: "on
deadline, for
UK's response
to current
developments
in Myanmar /
Burma. Please
confirm
receipt." This
was sent on
January 31 to
PR
Barbara.Woodward,
Jaclyn Licht,
Sorcha Lowry
and Isabella
Olex."
Nothing. Not even a
confirmation of receipt. Then
Woodward held a February 1
press conference with not a
single question on anything in
Africa, much less former UK
colony Cameroon.
Woodward,
reading off index cards,
repeated again and again a
"three Cs" - but Cameroon and
colonialism are not among
them. She made a point of
saying they will celebrate the
Lunar New Year, and did not
seem to understand at least
one of the agenda items for
the month.
The UK took
questions from two retires,
four state media, a former UN
staffer - but not Inner City
Press. It was run by one Mungo
Woodifield - Periscope video here.
And
because we'll be covering
them, apparently despite the
censorship by UK Mission, here
is the UNSG Program of Work
for February, here.
We'll have more on this.
Watch this site.
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