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Thomas-Greenfield In Romania Reverses
Course on Dodged April 1 Question After
Bucha
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April 4 –
With the United Nations
largely failing on Ukraine, US
Ambassador to the UN Linda
Thomas-Greenfield is in
Moldova then Romania. When a
press call was held on April 1
about her trip, there were
only four questions, two from
US government funded media,
see below on reversal
On April
3, this: "US Representative to
(of?) the United Nations
Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield met with
representatives of the UN
country team and humanitarian
organizations today in
Chisinau, Moldova. Ambassador
Thomas-Greenfield and the
representatives discussed
efforts by UN agencies,
international partners, and
non-governmental organizations
[and] ongoing cooperation
between UN agencies and the
Moldovan Government."
The above
is "attributable
to U.S.
Mission to the
United Nations
Spokesperson
Olivia
Dalton," for
whom, this
question:
Isn't it the
job of the UN
to try to
convince
people what a
great job it
is doing - and
the job of the
United States'
representation
to the UN to
ensure that
people,
particularly
Americans, are
treated fairly
by the UN? Or
whose job is
that? What has
been done on
the written
requests to
USUN and the
State
Department via
Laurel Rapp to
act to end the
UN's ban of
US-based Inner
City Press?
Video here.
And, we
asked, why
no mention of
Transnistria?
This
came in a transcript from
later in the
day, canned
questions from
Reuters: "what
further help
can you
provide the
Moldovan
(inaudible)?
PRIME
MINISTER
GAVRILIȚA: We
see no
specific plans
so far for
engaging
Moldova in
this
conflict." We'll
see. Then:
Q: 'we
all know that
there have
been troops
along – 1,500
troops along
Transnistria,
but have we
seen an
increase in
troops?
PRIME MINISTER
GAVRILIȚA: As
I have said,
we have seen
no signs of
increasing the
military
contingent or
any signs to
plan to
increase the
contingent or
any signs that
would make us
conclude that
there are
plans to
escalate the
conflict in
Moldova.
AMBASSADOR
THOMAS-GREENFIELD:
Thank you so
much.'
So what does
the US have to
say about
Transnistria?
Inner City
Press which covers the
conflict, and the continued
presence in Russia of
Citigroup, MUFG and others,
was not informed of the press
call, despite receiving such
notices and opportunities from
the IMF (see here
March 31)
An unnamed
Administration Official was asked,
"There was a call this week by
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee on the USUN to start
the process of ejecting Russia
out of the Human Rights
Council and the Security
Council. Any response?"
The
response did not mention any
USUN effort in this
regard. On April 4 in
Romania, this: "Ambassador
Thomas-Greenfield also raised
the United States’ intention
to pursue Russia’s suspension
from the UN Human Rights
Council, in light of the
mounting evidence that members
of Russian forces are
committing war crimes in
Ukraine and following horrific
reports about violence against
civilians in Bucha." And the
Security Council? And the UN
itself? Vlog here
This while the UN
Secretariat fields questions
from state media but not Inner
City Press, which it has
banned.
The issued has
been raised to the US State
Department via Laurel Rapp in
late 2021, pro bono by the Quinn
Emanuel law firm - and
still no answer at all.
We'll have more
on all this.
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