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UN GATE, October 4 – Amid a re-heating of the frozen conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh, on October 1 Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia held a press conference - but banned the Press.

 In the presser, with his state media, Ambassador Nebenzia said while Turkey unequivocally supports Armenia, Russia does not unequivocally support Armenia. Video here on Twitter, here on YouTube.

  Now on October 4 Azerbaijan is still bragging and blasting away and Guterres is silent and complicit, while phoning it in (by video) to Sudan. PGA Bozkir Vulkan is cheering the carnage on. Now this from ICRC: Hundreds of homes and key infrastructure like hospitals and schools have been destroyed or damaged by heavy artillery fire and by airborne attacks including missiles. Other infrastructure such as roads, electricity, gas and communication networks have also been damaged. Families are on the move looking for safe shelter, while others have retreated underground to unheated basements sheltering day and night from violence. The use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area against military targets in populated areas may violate international humanitarian law, which prohibits indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks. The ICRC considers that explosive weapons with a wide impact area should be avoided in populated areas, unless sufficient mitigation measures are taken to limit their wide area effects and the consequent risk of civilian harm. The UN is entirely corrupt.

  Inner City Press which has covered this conflict for the past decade, had a question to ask. But unlike retirees it was not sent the WebEx code, and Russian Mission spokesman Fedor Strzhizhovskiy did not answer Inner City Press' two emails with questions.

  Now Turkish state media - allowed in - has reported that "The Turkish foreign minister on Thursday discussed with his Russian counterpart the ongoing Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, a diplomatic source said.  In a phone, Mevlut Cavusoglu told Sergei Lavrov that a cease-fire has no meaning without a permanent solution -- end of Armenian occupation -- to the Upper Karabakh dispute, the insider said." Yeah, "in a phone." This is pathetic.

 The flare up is  not surprising with Turkish hatchetman Volkan Bozkir atop the General Assembly, saying nothing and blocking the Press that asks.

 So too Antonio Guterers, who after pouring gasoline on the conflict in Cameroon on September 28 through his censoring spokesman Stephane Dujarric said he was calling both sides. He is an ineffectual fraud - but paid propagandists allowed into Dujarric's briefing asking him to denounce Armenia. Today's UN is for sale to the highest bidder.

  On September 25 and 26, amid continuing censorship, there were rights of reply. On the 25th, Azerbaijan trashing Armenia, and India versus Pakistan, which  was the first to descend into citing the Nazis.

 On the 26th, after the speech of Belarus, replies by Armenia against Azerbaijan, and Indonesia - which blocks Inner City Press on Twitter - bullying Vanuatu for daring to mention West Papua. This is today's UN - totally corrupt.

 Third minute Inner City Press video here.

  Back on September 22, Trump was short and to the point, starting off with the China virus and China's emission and attacks on the sea rights of others. Six minutes - triggering those who hate him to say it was short.

  Xi's Ambassador Zhang Jun has yet to answer Inner City Press' September 21 questions about the use of his consulate to handle NYPD Officer Angwang to spy in Tibetan New Yorkers, and China's role in Guterres banning Inner City Press from the UN.

Instead, on September 22 Zhang Jun @ChinaAmbUN blocked Inner City Press on Twitter, photo here. Annals of Chinese diplomacy.

Nevertheless, here's from Zhang Jun's immediate right of reply, also immediately published by in-house blue passed media, which it seems didn't ask Zhang Jun about "officer" Angwang: "China will exercise the right of reply in accordance with the rules of the UN General Assembly to state its solemn position.  The US noise is incompatible with the general atmosphere of the General Assembly.... China’s important contribution to the global fight against the pandemic is highly recognized and commended by the international community, a fact that no one can deny. However, what is happening in this country is a complete failure.... Some US politicians’ attempt of blame-shifting and scapegoating will not get back the time lost or solve any problem. It is time that they wake up from their self-created illusions and fictions."
And bribe the Secretary General and others - and block the Press that asks about it!

   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 accreditation pulled).

  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 was confirmed: photo here.

 Past 11 pm on September 20, hours before the UN's "The World We Want" event, the UN emailed Inner City Press that its application was "declined for the following reason" - BLANK. Photo here.

  This is how arrogant today's UN is with the public's money, and the contempt the UN has for due process, freedom of the press and other principles mouthed by Guterres and his gang. This is the World They Want - a world without criticism of them, without critics, where they can take bribes and cover up rapes with impunity.

 There was further evidence on September 19-20: Inner City Press' IP address was suddenly blocked from accessing the UN's websites, article here, video demonstration here. We'll have more on this.

  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 member states and the UN's ultimate funders do? We 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 week while refusing all questions from Inner City Press despite an on camera promise. Again, what will member states and the UN's ultimate funders do? We'll report.

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