On Gaza
Closed Door
UN Security Council Meeting Set After
Kuwait and Bolivia Request With
Press Banned
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
PFTracker
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, November 13– On Gaza
there will be a UN Security
Council consultation meeting
on November 13, at the request
of Kuwait and Bolivia. Inner
City Press, which has covered
this issue for a decade at the
UN, will be banned from enter
the UN to cover this meeting,
by Antonio Guterres who will
again be out of town, this
time in DC but without meeting
with a single Administration
official but attending a
predatory investor's award
ceremony. This is today's UN.
Back in
June, 12
days
after Kuwait's
draft UN
Security Council resolution
was vetoed by
the US, on
June 13 an essentially
identical
draft was
adopted in the UN
General
Assembly with
120 in favor,
eight against
and 45 abstaining.
But what did
it accomplish?
Now on
November
12, this from
the Israeli
Mission: "Israel's
ambassador to
the UN, Danny
Danon,
appealed to
the Security
Council
Tuesday to
condemn the
firing of
hundreds of
rockets at
Israel. In
his letter to
the Council's
members, the
ambassador
noted that 'after
a day of
rocket
barrages,
there is no
room for any
other
definition of
Hamas except
that of
terrorist
organization.
To the world
it presents
its civilians
as victims,
but then uses
them as human
shields.' The
ambassador
added that 'Israel
cooperated
with all
international
bodies,
including the
UN, but the
aggressive
escalation
from Gaza
indicates that
there are
elements
pushing for
another round
of violence
that will
cause
destruction
and losses
within the
Gaza Strip.'" UNSG Antonio
Guterres, just off his
16th junket to
Lisbon was in
Paris for two
speeches.
Al Jazeera
flew its
correspondent
who worked
with
Guterres'
Stephne
Dujarric to
get Inner City Press
roughed up June 22 and
July
3 and
banned
since to Paris,
where he put
out this breaking/broken
news:
Guterres called the
situation in
Gaza "very serious."
Later
the UN issued
this: "
The
Secretary-General
is following
closely the
latest
security
developments
in Gaza. He
urges all
parties to
exercise
maximum
restraint. The
United Nations
Special
Coordinator,
Nickolay
Mladenov, is
working
closely with
Egypt and all
concerned
parties to
restore
calm.Farhan
Haq, Deputy
Spokesman for
the
Secretary-General New
York, 12
November
2018." The same
Farhan Haq who
did not answer a
single one of
the six
questions
Inner City
Press submitted in
writing at noon
on November
12 - while his
boss Dujarric
reached out selectively
to Europe to
defends the ban of
Inner City Press...
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