On
Jerusalem Before Trump Speech, UN Cancels Press
Briefing For Guterres
Belated Stakeout
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
December 6 -- UN senior
administration officials
confirmed to the Press at 5:30
pm on December 5 that
President Trump would on
December 6 not only recognize
Jerusalem as Israel's capital
but also order the US State
Department to act to move its
embassy there. On December 6
in front of the UN Security
Council chamber Ambassador
Llorenti Soliz of Council
member Bolivia said that if
Trump makes the announcement,
at 1 pm, he will ask for an open
Security Council meeting.
Inner City Press Periscope
video here.
Then at the stakeout they
started setting up for a
belated media availability by
UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres, less than an hour
after he excluded the Press
from a ceremony always Open
Press in the past, amid the multiple
scandals already surrounding
his administration. Then just
before noon they canceled the
UN's daily noon press briefing
on all other topics, from
North Korea to Yemen to
Cameroon, in order to promote
Guterres' "statement" at 1:30
pm. This is pathetic.
From the UN's December 5 noon
briefing, by Guterres'
holdover spokesman Stephane
Dujarric: "on Jerusalem, I
mean, like you we have seen
the press reports. I'm
not aware of any direct
communication between the US
and the Secretariat on this
particular issue here in New
York. We obviously await
to see an official
announcement." We'll see what
happens on December 6, after
Guterres swears in his censor
in chief Alison Smale, who has
upheld without even attempting
to defend the nearly two year
restrictions on the
investigative Press which most
aggressively covers the UN, in
favor of n0 show, no question
Egypt state media Akhbar al
Yom. The UN is not only
corrupt but also disgusting.
Back on March 22 when
Palestine's Permanent Observer
Riyad Mansour came to the UN
Security Council stakeout
after a meeting with UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres, he said it was a
good meeting but that it
remains unclear if Guterres'
report on Israeli settlements
on March 24 will be in writing
or merely oral. On the
choreographed withdrawal of
the ESCWA report on the topic,
a question was not answered,
but Mansour said he was going
to meet the Security Council
president but the press could
wait for a read-out in an
hour. Periscope video here.
Some media were blocked from
following Mansour down the
second floor hallway and
complained; for more than a
year, following trying to
cover the UN Ng Lap Seng
bribery scandal in the UN
Press Briefing Room, Inner
City Press has been banned
from that second floor hall,
following or not. This remains
the case in December 2017...
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