| In UN
of Guterres
Sweden Carl
Skau Takes WFP
Job After
Answered Press
But Not Now
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, May 27 –
On
World Press
Freedom Day,
the United
Nations of
Antonio
Guterres is
more
hypocritical
than
usual.
While UN
Global
Communications
chief Melissa
Fleming put
out a video
of Guterres
equating what
he (and she)
characterize
as
disinformation
as the threat
to press
freedom,
Guterres has banned
Inner City
Press from
entering the
UN since 2018,
when it exposed
the omission
of links to
bribery firm
CEFC China
Energy from
his financial
disclosure.
Before 2018,
then Swedish
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
Carl Skau
answered Inner
City Press'
questions, at
the UNSC stakeout
and in writing.
But now Skau
has been hired
by the UN
system - some
might say, a
conflict of
interest after
having been on
bodies
ostensibly
overseeing
Guterres - and
does nothing
about the UN's
ban on Inner
City Press,
which he used
to answer. We
have written
to him, as
before by
Twitter DM.
More
important,
what if
anything will
he do about
censorship
about which is
he is aware
and on notice?
Watch this
site.
Law
firm Quinn
Emanuel, on a
pro bono
basis, wrote
to Fleming and
the UN
Correspondents
Association
(with state
media of China
on its board
of directors)
seeking a
dialogue to
reinstate
Inner City
Press.
There
has been no
answer, nor to
an appeal
to Guterres
head of
security
Gilles
Michaud.
Still,
ill-informed
media run the
Guterres video
without
commentary.
Disinformation,
indeed.
***
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