| Albania As
UNSC President Is Asked For Press Access
No Answer Yet As SG Guterres Censors
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, June 1–
With Albania taking
over presidency of the UN
Security Council on June 1, on
May 31 Inner City Press wrote
to the Albanian Mission to the
UN to request access to its
June 1 press conference by
Ambassador Ferit Hoxha.
Inner City
Press wrote to the Albania
Mission at mission.newyork at
mfa.gov.al and
OfficeofthePR.Albania and
mfa.gov.al and to its listed
spokesman anila.ajvazi and
mfa.gov.al, apparently MIA:
"This is a timely request that
you send Inner City Press the
pass code(s) to access your
UNSC Presidency press briefing
on June 1, 2022. I have
questions to ask on what you
will do this month about the
conflicts in Ukraine, Haiti,
Sudan, DRC, Cameroon, Yemen
and Libya - and on recent
cases of sexual abuse and
exploitatoin by UN
peacekeepers on Inner
City Press first reported -
Inner City Press is asking to
be provided with access / the
passwords to your Albania
mission's stakeouts and press
conferences this month as UNSC
President... I would
also like to ask you to
instruct MALU / USG-DGC
Melissa Fleming to allow me to
enter to cover it, for Inner
City Press. She has not
responded to this
letter (your Albania
mission should)
Please immediately confirm
receipt, and provide the
passcode or state why not."
But by June 1 at
12:30 pm, nothing.
Inconsistent, to
say the least, with Albania's
duty as President of the UN
Security Council. Inner
City Press covered the UN and
UNSC under Kofi Annan and Ban
Ki-moon then was thrown out
under Antonio Guterres after
asking him directly about [,
among other things including
Cameroon,] the omission
from his financial disclosure
covering 2016 of his link,
through Lisbon's Gulbenkian
Foundation which paid him
money, to convicted UN briber
CEFC China Energy.
This was and is a
legitimate journalistic
question however Inner City
Press has been banned by
Guterres and his USG Melissa
Fleming.
There is no
commitment by the UN
Secretariat to even respond to
a polite law firm letter
seeking access to Inner City
Press, see video.
See also Press
Freedom Tracker and The
Independent (UK)
The Albanian
Mission and Albania have a
duty to not collude in
censorship, and to take
questions from media. Inner
City Press is permitted (in
fact, invited) to put WebEx
questions to the IMF
briefings, see below, and is
accredited at the SDNY Federal
court here in New York.
So it is up to
Albania and the Albanian
Mission to provide access.
Watch this
site.
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