Saturday, April 2, 2022

USUN Thomas-Greenfield Moldovia Trip Garners 4 Questions No Answer on Ouster or Ban

 

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC-Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN NY Mag

UN GATE / SDNY, April 1 – With the United Nations largely failing on Ukraine, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield is on her way to Moldova and Romania. But when a press call was held on April 1 about her trip, there were only four questions, two from US government funded media.    

 Inner City Press which covers the conflict, and the continued presence in Russia of Citigroup, MUFG and others, was not informed of the press call, despite receiving such notices and opportunities from the IMF (see here March 31) 

 An unnamed Administration Official was asked, "There was a call this week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the USUN to start the process of ejecting Russia out of the Human Rights Council and the Security Council. Any response?" 

 The response did not mention any USUN effort in this regard - this while the UN Secretariat fields questions from state media but not Inner City Press, which it has banned.

The issued has been raised to the US State Department via Laurel Rapp in late 2021, pro bono by the Quinn Emanuel law firm - and still no answer at all.

We'll have more on all this.

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