| On
World Press
Freedom Day
Germany Mimics
UN Guterres in
Banning
Independent
Media
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, May 3
–
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.
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.
UNCA invited
its scribes to
the German
Mission; Inner
City Press,
forwarded the
invite by a
disgruntedly
UNCA member,
RSVPed - with
no response at
all, even as
Germany
prepares to
pull out of
the UN's Mali
Mission: "UNCA
is extending
an invitation
to a press
briefing with
German Deputy
Foreign
Minister,
State Minister
Ms. Anna
LUEHRMANN (CV)
– off the
record.
Time:
Wednesday, 3
May 2023, 9
a.m. EDT (to
9.45
a.m.)
Place: German
House NY, 871
Un Plaza
Please
register
online!
https://forms.gle/xXLmjwmfebaKtaxs8
Topics: World
Press Freedom
Day, esp. new
global
programme for
the protection
of journalists
“Hannah Arendt
Inititaive”,
Climate Action
Policies,
Peacebuilding
activites.
Ms. LUEHMANN
will hold a
keynote at the
UN / UNESCO
#WPFD event on
2 May p.m. in
UNGA Hall. She
will speak at
the #WPFD side
event in the
German House
on 3 May, 10
a.m. – 11.30
a.m.,
“Displaced
media workers
on the
frontline eof
Human Rights’
Defense”,
Programme see
attached. YOU
ARE INVITED TO
ATTEND! OPEN
TO THE PRESS!
Kindly
register
online here.
She will speak
in the UNSC
Open Debate on
3 May
(“Sustaining
Peace”
Agenda)."
That's by
Switzerland.
Pure fraud.
Still,
ill-informed
media run the
Guterres video
without
commentary.
Disinformation,
indeed.
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