Syria
Speech
Cut Off on
June 7 Was
Ordered by
UN's DuBach,
ICP Learns, UN
Stonewalls
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
June 10 --
When UN
Television
went dark just
as Syrian
Ambassador
Bashar
Ja'afari began
speaking in
the General
Assembly on
June 7,
Inner City
Press linked
it to the
total black
out of
Ja'afari
in an early
session on
Syria held in
the ECOSOC
chamber.
But
UN
spokespeople
insisted to
Inner City
Press that it
was just a
"technical
glitch." At
the June 8 UN
noon briefing,
Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
called it a
miscommunication.
Sources
in
UN Television
have provided
further
information to
Inner City
Press. They
said it was no
mis-communication,
much less
technical
glitch:
rather, they
were ORDERED
to effectuate
the turn-off
by the
UN's Michele
DuBach, Acting
Deputy
Director-News
& Media
Operations.
And
so Inner City
Press wrote to
Nesirky and
his Associate
Farhan Haq, as
well as Ms.
DuBach:
"I
am
writing for
your comment
on an
exclusive
story I am on
deadline
for, including
that the call
to turn off UN
TV when
Syria's
Permanent
Representative
Ja'afari began
speaking in
the General
Assembly on
June 7 was
made by the
UN's Michele
DuBach, Acting
Deputy
Director-News
& Media
Operations. If
no response is
received
now, one can
be added
later. But if
you can send
something now,
how
ever brief, it
will be
included."
While
a UN
corruption
question Inner
City Press
submitted at
the same time
has yet to be
answered, on
this the
spokesperson's
office
answered:
Subject:
Your
question on
UNTV
From: UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at]
un.org
To:
Matthew.Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
Date:
Sun, Jun 10,
2012 at 5:20
PM
Regarding
your
question on
UNTV's
broadcast last
Thursday, this
is what the
Spokesperson
had to say
about it on
Friday, 8
June:
"I
have
a message from
our colleagues
in the News
and Media
Division.
They very much
regret and
apologize for
the brief
disruption of
the
UN's
broadcasting
of the General
Assembly
meeting on
Syria
yesterday.
This was due
to a
miscommunication
within the
division.
Every effort
is being made
to prevent
similar
occurrences in
the future."
But
Inner City
Press was
present at the
June 8 noon
briefing and
heard
that
statement. It
does not
address the
specific
question --
what was
the role of
Michele
DuBach, Acting
Deputy
Director-News
& Media
Operations in
ordering the
cut off?
What
is
a
"miscommunication,"
for the UN?
If as the UN
TV
sources say,
DuBach said
turn it off
and they did,
there was no
miscommunication.
Did someone
erroneously
tell DuBach to
issue such
an order? Who?
Watch this
site.
Footnote:
it's not just
Syria - as
Inner City
Press also
exclusively
investigated,
UN TV went
dark when the
Western Sahara
representative
of Polisario
was speaking,
due to a
"miscommunication"
by a Moroccan
DPI official
in charge....
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