| After Guterres
Stole UNSG Election No Live
Stream of Town Hall No Answer on
Hett Post
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Dec 27 –
As inside the increasingly
marginal United Nations a
process begins to select a
successor to Antonio Guterres
who banned
Inner City
Press from the
UN as it
reported on
his links
with briber
CEFC China
Energy and to
sex trafficker
Ghislaine
Maxwell,
it is time to review the
history. Part 5:
...Guterres' threats to
the Press began in his first
week on the job, about his
first Town Hall meeting. He
had Inner City Press banned
from staking it out. But back
in the focus booth in front of
Spokesman Dujarric's Office to
which it had been reduced,
Inner City Press found the
meeting was on the UN's
external website.
So Inner City
Press started a live stream on
Periscope - and soon received
this: "Dear Matthew,
Please note that the SG
townhall meeting is for UN
staff and is not an open
meeting. Therefore,
broadcasting it is a breach of
the guidelines."
Those would be
the magic words: breach of the
bogus guidelines that had been
agreed to, over Inner City
Press' objection, by the UN
Correspondents Association.
Here, rebroadcasting something
that was already public was
the breach. This would be
Guterres' UN.
By February
2017 Guterres has providing no
read-outs of his meetings with
foreign ministers like
Germany's Sigmar Gabriel.
Meanwhile Inner City Press'
questions such as if
Hamburg-born Katrin Hett was
working for the UN - she would
resurfaced in 2020 - went
unanswered. No disclosure
during his campaign for UNSG,
no disclosure after he bought
the job. And the Press thrown
out.
More on this
UNgutted 5 on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
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