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UN
Tells ICP It
Is Revoking
Grounds Pass,
Nobel
Ramos-Horta
Writes Gallach
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 19 --
The UN on
February 19,
after Inner
City Press
asked about UN
inaction in
South Sudan
and Burundi
and financial
irregularities,
was handed a
letter to
leave the UN
by 5 pm.
Letter here.
The
letter is
signed by the
Under
Secretary
General for
Public
Information
Cristina
Galach of
Spain but
ultimately SG
Ban Ki-moon is
in charge.
The
pretext was
Inner City
Press three
weeks earlier
seeking to
cover a
meeting in the
UN Press
Briefing Room
by an
organization
which has
taken money
from now
indicted Ng
Lap Seng and
Frank
Lorenzo's
South SOuth
News, then
gave Ng Lap
Seng a photo
op with Ban.
(As Inner City
Press
reported,
Gallach
attended the
South South
Awards jsut
before the
indictments.)
UN
Security
demanded ICP's
pass, which it
declined to
provide at
least until 5
pm. Then UN
Security told
Inner City
Press its
gronds pass
was being
revoked in
full and it
could not
re-enter the
UN for any
purpose.
A Nobel Prize
winner has
written to the
reclusive UN
official
censor
Cristina
Gallach:
From: "J.
Ramos-Horta"
Date: 19
February 2016
at 8:41:22 PM
GMT-5
To:
gallach@un.org
Subject: Pls
clarify
Dear USG
Gallach,
I've been
contacted by a
number of UN
Press
Correspondents
expressing
concern about
your office
abrupt
termination of
the
accreditation
of Matthew R.
Lee. I am in
possession of
your letter
which was
communicated
to Mr. Lee
giving him
till 5pm today
to hand-over
his UN Press
Pass and
abandon the UN
premises.
Obviously
apart from
your letter
which doesn't
not say much
about the
alleged
gravity of Mr.
Lee's breach
of UN rules, I
don't have any
additional
information
that may throw
light on the
case and
validate your
decision.
I am hereby
writing to
express my
serious
concern about
this case and
hoping that an
amicable
solution can
be found that
would enable
Mr. Mathew to
continue to
cover UN
activities
from within UN
premises as a
bona fide UN
Correspondent.
J. Ramos-Horta
There
will be more.
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