UNITED
NATIONS, March
27 -- At the
UN everything
gets delayed.
Not only
protecting
civilians in
Darfur or
responding to
having brought
cholera into
Haiti --
that's been
delayed
forever -- but
even the
small things,
like moving
the Security
Council back
to its
traditional
second story
home.
It
was going to
happen April
1, the day
Rwanda takes
over the
Presidency
from Russia.
But Monday UN
sources who
would have
worked last
weekend to
make the move
possible told
Inner City
Press, it
won't
happened.
Sound system
problems were
cited at the
reason.
Some
say the move
could take
place in two
weeks. But
does moving it
in the
middle of a
month-long
presidency
make sense?
Still,
tonight's End
of Presidency
reception by
Russia will
be, where
else,
in the
renovated
Council's
Russian Room.
A recent
visitor
described
still some
holes in the
ceiling, some
temporary
chairs, and
with
related to the
delay,
“electronic
problems.”
At
an even lower
level, the UN
Media
Accreditation
and Liaison
Unit has
announced it
will move on
April 15. It
says the press
will move
later, and
pointedly says
that no
refrigerators
no matter how
small
will be
allowed in the
new offices.
It
was ostensibly
to respond
orally to
written Inner
City Press
questions on
the longer
delayed move
of the press
corps that
MALU
entered and
raided Inner
City Press'
office on
March 18. MALU
took
pictures and
allowed others
too.
Pamela
Falk of CBS,
the president
of the UN
Correspondents
Association,
was
there
ghoulishly
taking
pictures. But
what for?
Falk
has sent a
legal
threat against
even asking
this question.
But we ask it.
Who gave
pictures to
the UNCA
“leaders” who
passed them
anonymously as
“Concerned UN
Reporter” to
BuzzFeed and
now comment,
also
anonymously,
on them? They
are now up to
six anonymous
social media
accounts. It's
nauseating.
Relatedly,
why
would the UN
name even the
journalists'
pantry in the
new space
after UNCA?
The Free
UN Coalition
for Access
has asked the
Department
of Public
Information,
particularly
in light of
recent UNCA
actions,
that it be
called
journalists'
pantry,
journalists'
club, not
branded
for UNCA. It's
literally
nauseating.
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site.
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