On
Cameroon Inner City Press
Asked Poland About May 13 UNSC
Meeting No Answer EU Charade
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, May 13 –After
Paul Biya who
has ruled
Cameroon for
36 years on
January 28 had
his opponent
Maurice Kamto
arrested,
Inner City
Press again asked UN
Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres and
his spokesmen for
their comment
and action, if
any. This came
after Guterres
had Inner City
Press roughed
up on 3
July 2018
after it
interviewed Biya's
Ambassador
about the two
men's Budget
Committee
deals and banned
from the UN
since -
Guterres even tried
to get Inner
City Press
banned from
the Park East
Synagogue,
here, which
was denied /
dodged by his
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric, who put
up then took
down a podcast
in which he
brags about
his "mutually
assured
destruction"
relationship
with
journalists, here.
After
whispers
from the UN
Security
Council about
a belated
UNSC
meeting on May
13, early on
the morning
of May 6 Inner
City Press submitted
written
questions,
this one to the UN
Mission of Poland
which has
done nothing
at all about
Guterres' now
309
days of
banning Inner
City Press:
"Press Q re
Cameroon, any
UNSC meeting,
Polish
Mission's
position on
that and
continued
banning of
Inner City
Press from
entering UN -
nowyjork.onz.sekretariat [at] msz.gov.pl,
bartlomiej.wybacz [at] msz.gov.pl,
radoslaw.tyszkiewicz [at] msz.gov.pl
- this is a
Press request
to the
PolishMission
as a member of
the UN
Security
Council to be
informed this
morning of
your Mission's
knowledge of
any upcoming
UNSC meeting
about Cameroon
of any kind,
including Any
Other Business
informal
consultations,
whether May 13
or any other
date. Inner
City Press
wrote to you
about this
back in July
2018.
Also, what is
your country's
position on
the situation
there and what
will / would
it seek to
accomplish at
any UNSC
meeting (and
if there is no
meeting, why
not).
Relatedly,
please explain
how it is
legitimate for
the UN to bar
entry to Inner
City Press
after ousting
it while it
covered the 3
July 2018
Fifth (Budget)
Committee then
chaired by
Cameroon, and
asked about
this situation
and other
under-performance
by the UN.
Inner City
Press' most
recent
application
for
re-accreditation
to enter and
cover the UNSC
stakeout,
submitted on
15 April 2019,
was denied
without
explanation on
April 17.
("Greetings
Matthew LEE
from
ICP
INNER CITY
PRESS,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M66561081, has
been
declined.")
What has your
Mission does,
or what will
it do, about
this?" Seven
full days later,
after UN noon
briefings
promoting Guterres' and Dujarric's
current
European
junket, and
still no
answer
- as the EU's
PR to the UN
tweets photos
of himself
with Biya's
Tommo Monthe.
And we
now report this:
on
May 13 the UN
Security
Council will
hold on
Cameroon the
lowest of all
forms of sessions
on Cameroon, a
so called
Arria formula
meeting of the
type it held
in 2009 on Sri
Lanka
after and
before the
killing of
thousands, accomplishing
nothing. Unlike
even an Any
Other Business
consultation
in the Security
Council, all
members do not
even have to
attend. A
participant
will be Guterres' UK
humanitarian
chief Mark
Lowcock,
who has
refused to
make even the
most basic UN
public
financial disclosure.
We'll have
more on this.
More
here.
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