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Even
of UNSC of
Cyber
Security, Ban
& Gallach
Hinder Press
With Minders
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 28 --
When amid
Press
questions
about UN
corruption Ban
Ki-moon and
his
Communications
chief Cristina
Gallach evicted
Inner City
Press from its
long time
shared office,
they not only
begin
confining the
Press to
“minders” to
cover any
events on the
UN's second
floor,
including of
the UN
Security
Council.
They also
denied it a
place to work,
and the
possibility to
cover many UN
meetings
including on
November 28
from a UN
Security
Council
meeting in the
Trusteeship
Council
Chamber on
sponsored by
Senegal and
Spain, set to
be President
of the
Security
Council in
December the
last of its 24
monts on the
Council, on
the topic of
cyber
security.
Inner City
Press was
required by
the order of
Spain's
highest UN
official
Cristina
Gallach to
have a minder
to cover
outside the
meeting, a
minder who
stayed six
feet away
throughout.
The meeting
was said by
Spain to be
“open” but was
not on the UN
Webcast run by
Gallach's DPI
- it was only
on “EZTV” for
insider
journalists
not evicted by
Gallach.
It turns out
that an
obvious issue,
the alleged
hacking of
elections, was
not even
mentioned in
the meeting.
Reviews
afterward,
with minder,
were far from
stellar, as
were
predictions
for December.
We'll have
more on this,
much more.
While with
Gallach's
minder, Inner
City Press was
able to learn
of a memorial
service for
November 29 in
the ECOSOC
chamber for
Joseph Verner
Reed; a UN
official came
by to chide
Inner City
Press was
asking when
the last time
was that Ban
Ki-moon spoke
with his
brother Ki-ho,
who had done
mining in
Myanmar after
being on a “UN
Delegation.”
This is UN
corruption,
and
censorship,
and it must
end.
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