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UNGA Week 2020 Inner City Press
Application for Access to Briefing
Received
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, Sept 6 –
In the United Nations, on
September 1 a list of speakers
for the UN General Assembly
week Sept 22-29 was released,
photo here.
From
2006 into 2018, Inner City
Press closely covered each
UNGA week from inside the UN,
asking questions in the UN
Press Briefing Room (which
which France once threatened
to use Secretary General
Antonio Guterres' spokesman
Stephane Dujarric to have it
removed and its accrediation
pulled).
Now, after
Guterres without any due
process had Inner City Press
roughed up by his personal
guards and banned from the UN
since, Inner City Press on
September 5, 2020 submitted a
formal application to cover
this 2020 UNGA, including for
access to the UN' online
briefings, to ask questions
about such crises as Cameroon,
Yemen and China's
expansionism. Receipt has been
confirmed: photo here.
Guterres'
chief propagandist Melissa
Fleming, spending public money
on a vanity podcast while
refusing questions about what
the UN actually, wants to
limit physical entry into the
UN building to so-called
"resident correpondents." But
even if that were legitimate
(it is not), there is no
reason to similarly limit
access to online briefings.
The IMF doesn't - Inner City
Press is given the codes and
asks questions and get
answers.
Thin
skinned Guterres is abusing
his position to block the
Press from covering actual
leaders. So what will new
President of the General
Assembly Bozkir Vulkan do? And
member states? We have asked
and will continue reporting.
Watch this site.
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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