| Seeking Free
Press Return to UN Quinn Emanuel Wrote to
SG & UNCA No Answers Late Book
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UN GATE / SDNY,
July 1 – While in the
United Nations there is a
flurry of statements about
World Press Freedom Day, there
has been no answer to
questions about Secretary
General Antonio Guterres'
ouster and banning of Inner
City Press which exposed the
omission in his financial
disclosure of a link to UN
bribery firm CEFC
China.
Inner City Press
these days daily covers the
Federal courts, where it
covered the trial that
convicted on bribery charges
Patrick Ho of CEFC China
Energy, which sought to buy
the oil company of Gulbenkian
Foundation which paid
Guterres.
But on
July 3, 2018 Inner City Press
was inside the UN, as an
accredited journalist, putting
questions to the Ambassador of
Cameroon about his claims that
Guterres in his 38th floor
office never asking him about
his government's killing of
Anglophones, only about favors
he could do while Cameroon was
chair of the UN Budget
Committee.
Inner City Press
was roughed up and ousted, and
had been banned since.
In July
2021 the law firm of Quinn
Emanuel, pro bono, wrote
on behalf of Inner City Press
to Guterres' head of media
accreditation Melissa Fleming,
and to each executive
committee member of the United
Nations Correspondents
Association, seeking a
dialogue to get Inner City
Press back into the
UN.
There was no
answer from these, who have
all virtue-signaled about
press freedom and WPFD since.
Guterres' spokesman Stephane
Dujarric was asked about the
Quinn Emanuel letter and
confirmed receipt, saying he
didn't know if it would be
responded to. Video.
It hasn't been.
Meanwhile
even as an UNCA member was
outed as having set up the
UNOPS corruption scandal, in
her 5000 square foot Manhattan
apartment, UNCA does nothing
for Press freedom. It just
wants to publish its
promotional book - but fails.
On July 1, 2022: "Dear
colleagues, I hope you
are well and enjoying the
start of summer. This is
to quickly update you on the
status of the UNCA
Directory. As the plan
was to distribute the 2022
edition by June there have
been inevitable delays in
production due to supply
shortages. We have now been
told that the copies will not
be available until the end of
July. It is
unfortunately beyond our
control, but we hope to get
them to you and our UN
community as soon as possible
and will send out a note when
and where to pick up your
copy. We hope to have a
toast at the end of
August/early September when
everyone has returned from
summer holiday and we can all
re-unite in the UNCA
room. Have a great
holiday weekend and happy
4th! Valeria." Yeah.
Now
we publish the letter, on
DocumentCloud, here.
And we will have more, much
more, on this. Watch this
site.
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