| Brazil 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, July 1–
With Brazil taking over
presidency of the UN Security
Council on July 1, 2022 on
June 30 Inner City Press wrote
to the Brazilian Mission to
the UN to request access to
its July 1 press conference by
Ambassador
Ronaldo
Costa Filho.
Inner City
Press wrote to the Brazil
Mission: "This is a timely
request that you send Inner
City Press the pass code(s) to
access your UNSC Presidency
Program of Work press
briefing, as you've announced
on Twitter (I notice your
Mission follows
@InnerCityPress, along with
149,999 others, on Twitter).
Please confirm
receipt of this email and
provide the WebEx codes or
other way to access,
immediately. 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 Brazil
mission's stakeouts and press
conferences this month with
Ronaldo Costa Filho 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 on March 31, 2022, here
As you all have now moved the
Council back into its Chamber,
either way 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 Brazil
mission
should)
Please immediately confirm
receipt, and provide the
passcode or state why not.
But by the
morning of July 1, nothing.
Inconsistent, to
say the least, with Brazil'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 Brazilian
Mission and Brazil 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
Brazil and the Brazilian
Mission to provide access.
Watch this
site.
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