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Stakeout Ghana
Invites Inner
City Press But
It Is Banned
By SG Guterres
and Fleming
by
Matthew Russell Lee
UN GATE, May 24 –
The UN
Security
Council among
its Permanent
members has no
African
country. But
there are
three elected
members.
One
of them,
Ghana, on May
24 announced
that with the
other two
(Mozambique
and Gabon) it
will hold a
press stakeout
"to highlight
Africa's
approach
towards
convergence by
the Council
leading to
negotiations
on the
financing of
AU-led Peace
Support
Operations."
The stakeout
will be inside
the UN - from
which Sec-Gen
Antonio
Guterres and
his
spokespeople
Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa
Fleming ban
Inner City
Press, after
its questions
about
Guterres'
finances.
Inner
City Press has
appealed, but
UN Security
chief Gilles
Michaud hasn't
deigned to
answer. So how
can Inner City
Press attend?
On
May 24, now
covering the
SDNY
courthouse
where
Guterres-linked
briber CEFC
China Energy
was exposed,
Inner City
Press reported
on Ghana
romance
scammer
Montrage, here.
Here
is the invite,
and to whom
and how it was
sent:
From: Solomon
Korbieh
Date:
Wed, May 24,
2023 at
6:44 PM
Subject: MEDIA
STAKEOUT BY
GABON, GHANA
AND MOZAMBIQUE
ON 25TH
MAY(TOMORROW),
2023 AT
10.45AM
To:
Stephane
Dujarric,
Farhan Haq ,
Melissa
Fleming,
Marcia Soares
Pinto, David
Kaye, Amina
Mohammed,
Janos
Tisovszky,
Eihab Omaish,
Tal
Mekel,
Eri Kaneko,
Brenden Varma.
Florencia Soto
Nino-Martinez,
Monica
Grayley,
Paulina
Kubiak,
Matthew R. Lee
Cc:
funca,
Felix Boateng,
Bismark
Anyanah
Dear
Mr.
Dujarric,
This is to
inform you
that Gabon,
Ghana and
Mozambique
(A3)
would have a
MEDIA STAKEOUT
tomorrow, 25th
May 2023 at
10.45 am at
the Security
Council Press
Area.
As
you may be
aware, the
Security
Council is
scheduled to
have a
briefing on
the
Secretary-General's
Report on
Financing of
African Union
Peace Support
Operations
(AUPSO) at
11.00 am. The
media stakeout
by the A3
seeks to
highlight
Africa's
approach
towards
convergence by
the Council
leading to
negotiations
on the
financing of
AU-led Peace
Support
Operations.
Best
regards.
Solomon
Korbieh
Minister
Plenipotentiary/Spokesperson
Permanent
Mission of
Ghana to the
United Nations
19 East 47th
Street New
York, NY
10017
On Thursday, 3
November 2022
at 11:52:37
GMT-4, Matthew
R. Lee
wrote:
Still banned
from UN, for
being roughed
up on 3 July
2018 while
covering the
UN Budget
Committee
meetings I am
entitled to
cover under
MALU Access
Guidelines and
as applied to
all other non
resident
correspondents).
Why is Inner
City Press,
despite the
Quinn Emanual
law firm's pro
bono letter to
Melissa
Fleming more
than a year
ago, still
banned from
entering to
ask these
questions?
These written
question are
posed and
responses
requested
pursuant to
the until-now
broken
commitment the
the UN will
"continue to
answer
e-mailed
questions from
Mr Lee"
InnerCityPress:
here
Why
is Inner City
Press, despite
the Quinn
Emanual law
firm's pro
bono letter to
Melissa
Fleming more
than a year
ago, still
banned from
entering to
ask these
questions?
In June 2022,
while still
banned from
the UN: June
24, 2022, IMF
Q&A with
Kristalina
Georgieva,
"Matthew Lee,
come on in
please.
Q: Thank you.
Matthew Lee,
Inner City
Press. on the
Federal
Reserve and
transparency...
there's some
large bank
mergers
pending on
which hearings
have been
scheduled," transcript
Video:
Nov
3-1: On Ghana,
UNSC
President, and
corruption,
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that One of
the daughters
of Ghanaian
President
Akufo-Addo has
denied
receiving a
government
contract of
$25m (£22m) to
paint murals
in parts of
the capital,
Accra.
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