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UNSC Prez US & Gumbo Diplomacy UN Bans
Press On Qs Cameroon & Hochschild
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, March 1
– In the United Nations from
which Secretary General
Antonio Guterres has banned
Inner City Press 972 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 the morning of
March 1 Inner City Press wrote
to the US Mission to the UN,
at its address in the UN Blue
Book and other addresses, as
incoming UN Security Council
president, to ask questions
including about Cameroon,
Western Sahara, Haiti, Yemen,
Honduras 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 the
USUN Mission's UNSC Presidency
press briefing later today. I
have questions to ask on what
you will do this month about
the conflicts in Cameroon,
Burma and Yemen - and on the
sexual harassment charges
against Fabrizio Hochschild on
which Inner City Press first
reported in April 2019, for
example - Inner City Press is
asking to be provided with
access / the passwords to the
US Mission 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, in February 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. How can the US
mission allow a US-based
journalist who covers
international affairs (like
Honduras) to be blocked from
reporting on events such as
these, by your Mission, in the
UN? And also (Press question)
- what is the Mission's
standard for circulating or
blocking the circulation to
member states of letters and
CVs of candidates to oppose SG
Guterres?
Please immediately confirm
receipt, and provide the
passcode or state why not."
No answer yet.
Then Linda Thomas-Greenfield
held her March 1 press
conference with no questions
on UN corruption and sexual
exploitation, Cameroon, much
less Honduras.
The
Ambassador, propounding Gumbo
Diplomacy, described a March
11 event on hunger focused on
Yemen and Ethiopia. Inner City
Press live tweeted, including
the Program of Work here:
South Sudan March 3, Syria 4,
15, etc, Yemen 16, UNAMA 23,
Libya 24, DR Congo March 30.
No #Cameroon, much less
Honduras. No footnotes
And
because we'll be covering
them, apparently despite the
continued UN censorship, here
is the UNSG Program of Work
for March, here.
We'll have more on this.
Watch this site.
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