UN
Guterres To Hold First Press
Conference in 5 Months On Same
Day He Toasts UNCA, Censors
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
June 20 – How untransparent
and inaccessible is Antonio
Guterres, as UN Secretary
General? The last time he held
a press conference at UN
headquarters was more than
five months ago, on January
16. On that day, Inner
City Press asked
Guterres why he had not acted
on the killings by the
Cameroon government and had
not even started an audit of
the China Energy Fund
Committee UN bribery case in
which CEFC's UN representative
Patrick Ho was and is jailed.
Since then, still no audit and
no action on Cameroon.
Now
after five months Guterres
will on June 26 finally hold a
second press conference. But
on the same day, he is also
the guest of honor of the UN
Correspondents Association:
“This year marks UNCA's 70th
anniversary, celebrating seven
decades of journalism
committed to reporting on the
UN and its many causes and
objectives [1!] Please join us
for a toast at a special
outdoor summer event with
fellow colleagues,
ambassadors, diplomats and
friends in honor of this
historic year. TUESDAY, JUNE
26th, 5:30 pm, (LOCATION TBC),
Opening Remarks by UN
Secretary-General António
Guterres, Regional FOOD, WINE,
COCKTAILS & BEER.” Is this
appropriate? Guterres'
holdover spokesman Stephane
Dujarric has continued to
restrict the Press that asks
him the most questions, in
favor of a no-show Egyptian
state media whose
correspondent Sanaa Youssef is
a former president of UNCA and
who hasn't asked the UN a
question in more than a
decade. We'll have more on
this.
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