By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Oct 30 – With Mexico taking over presidency of the UN Security Council on November 1, on October 29 Inner City Press wrote to the Mexican Mission to the UN to request access to its November 1 press conference by Ambassador Juan Ramón de la Fuente.
Inner City Press wrote to the Mission and to its listed spokesman, Ricardo Alday Gonzalez.
More than 24 hours later, nothing - inconsistent, to say the least, with Mexico'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 Mexican Mission and Mexico 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 Mexico and the Mexican Mission to provide access.
Watch this site.
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