| Niger As
UNSC President Was Asked For Press Access
No Answer As SG Guterres Censors
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Dec 1
– With Niger taking over
presidency of the UN Security
Council on December 1, on
November 30 Inner City Press
wrote to the Niger Mission to
the UN to request access to
its December 1 press
conference by Ambassador Abdou
Abarryon.
Inner City
Press wrote to the Mission
including at nigermission [at]
ymail [dot] com
More than a day
later, nothing - inconsistent,
to say the least, with Niger'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 - and nothing
at all, from December 21 on.
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 Niger Mission
and Niger 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
Niger and the Niger Mission to
provide access.
Watch this
site.
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