UN GATE, September 3 – With the UN Security Council presidency for September being taken over by Russia's Vassily Nebenzia, his 3 September 2019 press conference featured almost no discussion of anything in Africa, other than Libya. Nebenzia called Libya a more difficult dossier than Syria. Reuters, meanwhile, bragged that it is "older than TASS." Great.
With Inner City Press still banned from entering the UN by Antonio Guterres and now Melissa Fleming, there is nothing on the agenda or asked about Cameroon or Burundi. Instead, there is Syria, Afghanistan (September 10) and Yemen (September 16). Guterres will blather in the Security Council on September 25; his also censoring chief of staff Viotti will fill in on September 26.
From what Nebenzia called the UN's best month and best week, Guterres is banning Inner City Press. It is disgusting. We'll have more on this.
Jacek Czaputowicz, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, was at the UN on August 2 but no photos with or meeting with Antonio Guterres - who already left town without saying where, even as Press asks: totally corrupt, like at UNRWA.
In the UN Security Council Yemen, another failure of Guterres, will be discussed on August 20; Somalia on August 21. Cameroon is lumped with UNOCA on August 14. The killings in Cameroon were not mentioned once in Poland's Press-less press confernce, Burundi only by an UNCA member travel agent sucking up to Kazakhstan. Yeah, free press at the UN.
Syria has at least three meetings: August 14, 19 and 29. Poland will host a Big Lunch for Big Tony on August 23. Apparently he will head on a murky vacation trip before then. Poland as UNSC president should ensure the Press can cover its work. We'll have more on this.
After whispers from the UN Security Council about a belated UNSC meeting on May 13, early on the morning of May 6 Inner City Press submitted written questions, this one to the UN Mission of Poland which has done nothing at all about Guterres' now 309 days of banning Inner City Press: "Press Q re Cameroon, any UNSC meeting, Polish Mission's position on that and continued banning of Inner City Press from entering UN - nowyjork.onz.sekretariat [at] msz.gov.pl, bartlomiej.wybacz [at] msz.gov.pl, radoslaw.tyszkiewicz [at] msz.gov.pl - this is a Press request to the PolishMission as a member of the UN Security Council to be informed this morning of your Mission's knowledge of any upcoming UNSC meeting about Cameroon of any kind, including Any Other Business informal consultations, whether May 13 or any other date. Inner City Press wrote to you about this back in July 2018. Also, what is your country's position on the situation there and what will / would it seek to accomplish at any UNSC meeting (and if there is no meeting, why not). Relatedly, please explain how it is legitimate for the UN to bar entry to Inner City Press after ousting it while it covered the 3 July 2018 Fifth (Budget) Committee then chaired by Cameroon, and asked about this situation and other under-performance by the UN. Inner City Press' most recent application for re-accreditation to enter and cover the UNSC stakeout, submitted on 15 April 2019, was denied without explanation on April 17. ("Greetings Matthew LEE from ICP INNER CITY PRESS, Your media accreditation request, with reference no: M66561081, has been declined.") What has your Mission does, or what will it do, about this?" Seven full days later, after UN noon briefings promoting Guterres' and Dujarric's current European junket, and still no answer - as the EU's PR to the UN tweets photos of himself with Biya's Tommo Monthe....
