In
UNSC In October South Africa
Has 40 Meetings None on
Cameroon Press Banned
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Photos,
Periscope
UN GATE, October
1 – With the UN Security
Council presidency for October
being taken over by South
Africa's Jerry Matjila, he
bragged in his 1 October 2019
press conference that there
would be 40 meetings in the
month.
None, though, on
the slaughter in Cameroon. And
Inner City Press which most
asks about that UN failure
remains banned from the UN by
Antonio Guterres. Matjila's
predecessor Mutaboba raised
it; Matjila has not. It was
whispered to him to hand the
third question to his own
state media, after the first
question was by the head of
UNCA just back from a junket
in China, asking about Chinese
power. This is today's UN.
The Great Lakes
of Africa? Guterres' envoy
Huang Xia will brief on
October 3. Killing off the
mission in Haiti, after the UN
killed 10,000 people with
cholera and didn't pay one
cent. Lunch with corrupt
Guterres on the 17th, after
reviewing his corrupt policies
on Yemen and then Darfur. A
trip to Addis and side trip to
Juba - Inner City Press used
to go on such Council trips,
until Guterres' reign of
censorship - and at the end,
Burundi on which Matjila was
apologetic. Kafando has
failed. We'll have more on
this.
Matjila
mock referred questions to
Marthinus van Schalkwyk; there
is no mechanism to get news of
transparency from this
Mission.
Inner
City Press' last
application for
re-accreditation
to enter and
cover the UNSC
stakeout,
submitted on 15
April 2019, was
denied without
explanation on
April 17.
("Greetings
Matthew LEE from
ICP
INNER CITY
PRESS,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M66561081, has
been
declined.")
This was repeated for the UNGA
week, with nothing
from South Africa.
Alamy
photos here.
Earlier on September 1 in
Alemu's briefing to countries
not on the Security Council,
Bangladesh specifically asked
that the Council remain seized
of the situation in Myanmar.
When Inner City Press asked
Alemu about this, he said he
still had to inform himself
more about that situation. The
Security Council is traveling
to Addis from September 5
through 9, when alongside
African Union consultations
the Council's member will meet
for an hour with Prime
Minister Hailemariam Desalegn,
Alemu said. The Council will
receive the “maiden briefings”
late in the month of the new
Under Secretaries General of
OCHA and on Counter-Terrorism.
There will be peacekeeping on
September 20, during the High
Level week of the UN General
Assembly, and Yemen on
September 26. But tellingly,
there will not be Burundi.
Watch this site.
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