| Mexico As
UNSC Prez Has No Burma or Biafra No
Climate or Cameroon As Blocks Press Qs
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Nov 1
– With Mexico taking
over presidency of the UN
Security Council on November
1, on October 29 Inner City
Press wrote to the Mexican
Mission to the UN to request
access to its November 1 press
conference by Ambassador Juan
Ramon de la Fuente Ramirez.
Inner City
Press wrote to the Mission and
to its listed spokesman.
Three days later,
nothing - inconsistent, to say
the least, with Mexico's duty
as President of the UN
Security Council.
Their
"program of work" has NOTHING
on Cameroon or Nigeria, but
small arms and exclusion. No
Burma, no Haiti. The press
conference was short, less
than an hour, with a lie at
the end that there were no
more questions. Among other
things, Juan Ramon de la
Fuente Ramirez said there is
nothing on Ethiopia or climate
change. They took an online
question from a person
walking. We will be covering
this month, censored or not,
in detail.
Inner City Press
covered the UN and UNSC under
Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon
then was thrown out under
Antonio Guterres after asking
him directly about [among
other things including
Cameroon,] the omission
from his financial disclosure
covering 2016 of his link,
through Lisbon's Gulbenkian
Foundation which paid him
money, to convicted UN briber
CEFC China Energy.
This was and is a
legitimate journalistic
question however Inner City
Press has been banned by
Guterres and his USG Melissa
Fleming.
There is no
commitment by the UN
Secretariat to even respond to
a polite law firm letter
seeking access to Inner City
Press, see video.
See also Press
Freedom Tracker and The
Independent (UK)
The Mexican
Mission and Mexico have a duty
to not collude in censorship,
and to take questions from
media. Inner City Press is
permitted (in fact, invited)
to put WebEx questions to the
IMF briefings, see below, and
is accredited at the SDNY
Federal court here in New
York.
So it is up to
Mexico and the Mexican Mission
to provide access.
Watch this
site.
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