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Week 2020 Closed To All But State Media
and Retirees Picked By Corrupt Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, Sept 4 –
In the United Nations from
which SG Antonio Guterres has
banned Inner City Press 794
days for asking about his
complicity in the killing of
civilians in Cameroon and
their mass imprisonment by
China in Xinjiang, on
September 1 a list of speakers
for the UNGA week Sept 22-29
was released, photo here.
Now the UN
has said it will limit access
to the few dozen retirees and
state media it uses to prop up
Guterres. Melissa Fleming's
MALU says, "In light of the
COVID-19 pandemic, special
arrangements will be in place
for the General Debate and
other high-level meetings of
GA75. Accordingly, and
in an effort to limit the
number of people on the
premises, temporary media
accreditation will not be
issued for the high-level
period of GA75 and there will
not be a media
centre.
Entrance will be limited to
resident correspondents who
need access to their offices
at UNHQ (& potentially a
very limited number of
non-resident, subject to
on-site risk assessment)."
Most
resident correspondents write
nothing, or only propaganda.
And who will decide on these
"very limited non-resident"
[sic] who will be allowed in?
This is the beginning of a
series. Thread
here.
The
censored UNGA Week will be
even more lame than usual,
with most speeches - other
than Trump's? - by video.
Still in the first morning
there are China and Russia,
Qatar, Morocco and Iran.
Cameroon's dictator Paul Biya,
supported in his killing like
many others by Guterres, is on
Friday September 24.
Yet only
the same old retirees and
state media will be allowed
in, they say. Inner City Press
will have more on this.
Earlier on
September 1 Inner City Press
wrote to the Niger Mission, as
incoming UN Security Council
president, with questions
about Cameroon, Somalia and
UNsexploitation.
The email
address on the Niger Mission's
UN web page did not work; it
bounced back. A Direct Message
on Twitter to @Niger_ONU was
not answered.
This as Sani I.
Mahamadou, Deputy Chief of
Staff to Niger's president,
bragged online of a "Very big
day for Niger, who begins his
month of presidency of the
United Nations Security
Council." They're off to a
terrible start.
Apparently
Niger PR Abdou Abarry could
only handle questions from
pre-screened in-house
correspondents, one of whose
media has no
story by her since
2017, another with
no stories at all, at
least one - actually, more --
a repeated #MeToo violator.
Periscope here.
Niger has
not said a word about the
slaughter in Cameroon, nor
about the UN Peacekeeping
sexploitation exposed by Inner
City Press.
The
Program belatedly went up -
with countries on which Niger
ignored and censored
questions: Myanmar, Somalia,
where UNMAS sent local staff
to be killed, and Colombia and
South Sudan. There will be
Francophonie on September 8.
We have now written directly
to the Mission's 404 spokesman
- and will have more on this.
When Guterres'
spokes- / hatchetman Stephane
Dujarric holds his noon
briefings this month while
refusing all questions from
Inner City Press despite an on
camera promise.
And Indonesia? We'll report.
Watch this site.
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