UN GATE / SDNY,
Feb 27 - The United Nations,
its often unaccountable senior
leadership like Fabrizio
Hochschild and always
sychophantic press corps all
seem pleased by the prospect
of increased funding from
Foggy Bottom and ultimately
the American people. But will
the UN administration
belatedly live up to
principles like those of the
First Amendment, for example
content neutral press access?
So far,
no.
On
February 25 new Ambassador
Linda Thomas-Greenfield held a
stake-out by the UN Security
Council. Inner City Press has
questioned US Ambassadors from
Zalmay
Khalilzad through Susan
Rice and Samantha
Power to Nikki
Haley. But now, due to
critical coverage of and
questions to Antonio Guterres,
it is banned.
So, an
investigative US-based media
is blocked from questioning a
US official. Can this be
legal? And what about the
President of the General
Assembly, and the President of
the UN Security Council - for
now the UK, not yet the US
which will face this - not
even confirming receipt of,
much less circulating, the
letters and C.V.s of opponent
of Guterres? We'll have more
on this.
Here for
now is the Mission's read-out
of Day 2: "The below is
attributable to United States
Mission Spokesperson Olivia
Dalton:
Yesterday, Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield made a
virtual visit to Yemen to meet
with humanitarian NGOs,
including the Danish Refugee
Council, Doctors Without
Borders, and the International
Committee of the Red
Cross. The Ambassador
engaged with the organizations
to learn of their challenges
on the ground, and recognized
their vital work to provide
life-saving support to the
Yemeni
people.
Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield
also held a virtual roundtable
with executive leadership of
the humanitarian organizations
CARE, the International Rescue
Committee, Mercy Corps, the
Norwegian Refugee Council,
Save the Children, and World
Vision. The Ambassador
reiterated President Biden’s
commitment to providing
humanitarian support and
recognized that the United
States can only address global
challenges through
multilateral action and a
principled humanitarian
response.
For the first time addressing
the General Assembly as the
Representative of the United
States to the United Nations,
Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield
delivered remarks to the UN
General Assembly on the
situation in Burma. The
Ambassador strongly condemned
the military coup and the
security forces' brutal
killing of unarmed people and
urged the world to speak with
one voice to show solidarity
with the people of
Burma.
Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield
ended the day with a series of
bilateral meetings with
Permanent Representatives to
the United Nations from the
People’s Republic of China,
Ireland, Norway, the Russian
Federation, and St. Vincent
and the Grenadines. The
Ambassador discussed the
upcoming U.S. Security Council
Presidency and the integral
work of the Security Council
on global challenges,
including human rights and
climate change, and areas of
shared interest for future
cooperation in the United
Nations."
So not all
members of the UN Security
Council have been met with yet
- where for example are India,
and the A3? Watch this site.
No discussion of
ensuring that Guterres doesn't
just strong arm a second term
in a way that makes a mockery
of the pronouncement on
democracy by the UN - &
P3?
Revisit the canned Q&A in
the UN noon briefing of
November 23, which again
banned Inner City Press - and
its questions about UN
corruption and sexual abuse, Cameroon,
Honduras
and other UN failures,
here.
Inner City Press
before corrupt UNSG Antonio
Guterres had it thrown
out without due process
or appeal covered not only the
UN and its "Peacekeeping"
missions in Haiti and
elsewhere, but also Antony
Blinken (here,
meeting Prince Zeid) and Linda
Thomas-Greenfield (here,
after a trip to Somalia; Inner
City Press covered the UN
Security Council trip to
Djibouti).
On February 25,
the IMF took Inner City Press'
questions on Sudan and
Cambodia via WebEx, here.
Inner City Press also spoke
for half an hour on Honduras
UNeTV, including about the
Biden Administration,
Secretary Antony Blinken and
Honduras, and SDNY: here.
The UN banned
Inner City Press, including
from the stakeout by the US
Ambassador. Again, can this be
legal? Is it sustainable? Is
it credible? Watch this site.
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