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UNSC Prez Jurgenson of Estonia Is Asked To
Not Block Access He Calls 1-Man Race OK
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, May 31 –
In the United Nations from
which Secretary General
Antonio Guterres has banned
Inner City Press 1064 days for
asking about his complicity in
the killing of civilians in
Cameroon, poisoning them in
Haiti with cholera and COVID
in South Sudan, and their mass
imprisonment by China in
Xinjiang, on May 28 Inner City
Press wrote to the Mission of
Estonia, as incoming UN
Security Council president,
with questions including about
Cameroon, Belarus, Honduras,
Yemen, Western Sahara, Haiti
and Libya:
"This is a timely
request that you sent Inner
City Press the pass code(s) to
access your UNSC Presidency
press briefing on June 1 at 3
pm. I have questions to ask on
what you will do this month
about the conflicts in
Myanmar, Cameroon, Yemen and
Libya - and on the sexual
harassment charges against
Fabrizio Hochschild on which
Inner City Press first
reported in April 2019, for
example - Inner City Press is
asking to be provided with
access / the passwords to your
Estonia mission's stakeouts
and press conferences this
month as UNSC President.
Be aware that I
for Inner City Press am
invited to ask questions by
the IMF at its briefings (see,
e.g., May 20 here,
and Wilson Center on May 20,
2021 on North Korea, here
and May 27, 2021,
here.
Separately, given that I have
submitted to the PGA a letter
and CV in connection
with SG election process, to
cause a debate on UN press
freedom and accountability,
this is a formal request that
you circulate my and other
candidates' letter and CVs to
member states, or immediately
inform me why not, given that
no written rule required a
member state's endorsement to
run. Please
immediately confirm receipt,
and provide the passcode or
state why not."
This is to
Permanent Representative Sven
Jürgenson. Now three days
later, no response from the
Estonian Mission, including
spokesperson Liisa Toots, but
these quotes from Jurgenson:
“It will be very nice for us
to do it, and for me
personally because during the
last elections five years ago,
Estonia together with Costa
Rica had a lead in the ACT
[Accountability, Coherence and
Transparency] group on the
selection process of
secretary-general... “I
don’t think that we are moving
back. I think the process, if
you look at what happened this
year, actually, it was exactly
the same process that happened
last [time]. But it was just
with one candidate.” Really??
Transparent but not even any
answers to formal requests and
questions from a media which
has covered the UN for years,
and a candidate? Watch this
site.
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