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UNSC Prez UK Refusing Press Qs on Burma
Cameroon & Hochschild For SG Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, Feb 1 –
In the United Nations from
which Secretary General
Antonio Guterres has banned
Inner City Press 944 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, and now political
imprisonments amid the Burma
coup, back on January 29 Inner
City Press wrote to the
Mission of the United Kingdom,
as incoming UN Security
Council president, with
questions including about
Cameroon, Western Sahara,
Haiti and Libya.
Now with
the UK President of the UN
Security Council, Inner City
Press' pending question is:
"on deadline, for UK's
response to current
developments in Myanmar /
Burma. Please confirm
receipt." This was sent on
January 31 to PR
Barbara.Woodward,
Jaclyn Licht, Sorcha Lowry and
Isabella Olex.
Nothing. Not even a
confirmation of receipt. We
will continue to report on
this.
Inner City
Press specifically asked to be
provided the WebEx codes to be
able to ask its questions:
This is a timely
request that you sent Inner
City Press the pass code(s) to
access your UNSC Presidency
press briefing on February 1.
I have questions
to ask on what you will do
this month about the conflicts
in Cameroon, Yemen and Libya -
and on the sexual harassment
charges against Fabrizio
Hochschild on which Inner City
Press first reported in April
2019, picked up here in July
2019, for example - Inner City
Press is asking to be provided
with access / the passwords to
your UK mission's stakeouts
and press conferences this
month as UNSC President. Given
your stated focus on the rule
of law, you should ensure due
process (and access) for Press
covering the UN. Please
note that Inner City Press and
I participate in the WebEx
briefings of, for example, the
IMF here
and here.
As I
hear that you may be moving
the Council back into its
Chamber, either way I would
also like to ask you to
instruct MALU / USG-DGC
Fleming to allow me to enter
to cover it, for Inner City
Press. Please
immediately confirm receipt.
No answer yet,
two days later, on the cusp of
February.
Back in
January Tunisia's spokesperson
took questions in groups of
four -- without protest from
the increasingly pathetic UNCA
UN press corpse -- allowing PR
Labed to evade even the
questions that were asked.
No one allowed in
asked about Cameroon, just the
way Guterres wants it. The
answer is clearly no. This is
shameful. But will the UK, the
new US and the five incoming
UNSC members - India, Ireland,
Mexico, Kenya and Norway - do
their jobs of openness to the
Press and public? We are
asking.
For now
Inner City Press, which will
report all month about the
UNSC Today's UN is corrupt.
Inner City Press streamed some
of the January Press-less
presser, here.
Among those "given the
floor" by Tunisia, while
banning Inner City Press, were
state media from Pakistan, a
retiree of a decade, and
others.
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 the UK, etc? We'll report.
Watch this site.
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