By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN
UN GATE / SDNY, Jan 28 – Each day, the current United Nations gets worse. We have questioned Secretary General Antonio Guterres moving from concealing his links to indicted pedophile procurer Ghislaine Maxwell and to UN briber CEFC China Energy to banning the Press that asks, also about failures on Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Haiti, Honduras (Narco President JOH) & Nigeria (Nnamdi and Igboho).
Guterres had a representative on Ghislaine Maxwell's Terramar board of directors, one of only five members of the board: Amir Dossal. Inner City Press asked about that, and about Jeffrey Epstein's UN fellowship. Not only wouldn't Guterres answer - he had Inner City Press roughed up and banned, now 1403 days.
The board members of the UN Correspondents Association, functioning it seems as Guterres' partner in banning Inner City Press, after dodging its questions about money they took from Chinese government briber Ng Lap Seng's South South News and an UNCA officer's financial link with an accused war criminal from Sri Lanka, have neither responded to or offered any explanation when a lawyer's letter from the Quinn Emanuel firm, on ongoing pro bono engagement- to each UNCA Executive Committee member - urged them to have a dialogue about ending the UN's banning and censorship of Inner City Press.
They have done nothing, and they have not asked Guterres about his attendance at the Genocide Games in Beijing. Instead, they want to record themselves, and they get serviced:
"Dear colleagues, Some of you have raised concerns regarding the change to the recording feature on EZTV that has recently been turned off. We sent an urgent letter to the Spokesperson's Office and MALU requesting to have the feature restored. MALU has communicated the issue to BCSS and sent the update below. We will keep you posted on the situation as soon as we receive more information. Valeria Robecco President, United Nations Correspondents Association
Dear Valeria, Thank you for raising the issue. We reached out to colleagues from BCSS (Broadcast and Conference Support Section) and they inform us that the EZTV platform was recently upgraded, since the older version is not supported by the vendor anymore. Furthermore, EZTV was provided to follow meetings but recording was an extra feature, which the EZTV vendor did not provide in the latest upgrade. Understanding the importance of recording option to some of the resident media, BCSS will check with the vendor if they can customize recording options on the latest EZTV platform. As you note, there are fiber lines available for interested broadcasters with one time payment (no recurring costs). We can also take limited number of cameras to the media booths with escort from our office. We will keep you posted and regret the inconvenience. Best, MALU"
On December 8, amid the Ghislaine Maxwell trial in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Inner City Press cited in the Telegraph and Sun, and on radio) UNCA is raising money selling access to Guterres at Cipriani at 25 Broadway, in what some call the Pedophiles' Ball.
After a full day of covering the Maxwell trial, Inner City Press went there, to seek an answer from Guterres. Live stream from Foley Square here; 1 hour stream from outside the Pedophiles' Ball here.
Inner City Press greeted US Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, who knows about Guterres' ban of the Press but has done nothing, and commented on the entry of Saudi's ambassador, with craven UNCA asking nothing about Jamal Khashoggi.
But it emerged that Guterres, the guest of honor access to whom had been sold, would be a no-show. Inner City Press put the question of the new UN child rape in Gabon to Guterres' head of censorship / accreditation Melissa Fleming at the end of this video, here. There has been no answer.
The Quinn Emanuel letter was received by the UN's Melissa Fleming, Maria Luiza Vioti and Tal Mekel and to each UNCA Executive Board member, to them citing UNCA's stated goals that it has a charter to supposedly uphold. Nothing, yet.
What's next? Since the letter, Inner City Press has published exclusive stories not only from the U.S. court systems but about the United Nations, including its agencies UNOPS, UNFPA, UNITAR and UNESCO. (Also credited in AP, Daily Mail, and Nigeria's Sahara Reporters, amid answers from the IMF.)
But none of its written questions have been answered by the UN Spokespeople, now including Paulina Kubiak for the UN PGA, and it remains banned from entry to the UN's briefings. This must end.
Having asked for a collegial discussion, and while still offering it, things must turn to the law. UNCA is a New York State non-profit which has not only not abided by its stated goals - it has tortiously interfered with a journalist's right to cover the United Nations. The United Nations itself propounds Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and has other legal duties that must be addressed by national courts, particularly in the UN's host country...
Those in receipt of the first, friendly letter: melissa.fleming@un.org, marialuiza.viotti@un.org, mekel@un.org, malu@un.org, and UNCA
Valeria Robecco, ANSA News Agency, Nabil Abi Saab, Al-Araby, Jianguo Ma, Xinhua News Agency, Edith Lederer, Associated, Giampaolo Pioli, Quotidiano, Linda Fasulo, Ibtisam Azem, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed Newspaper, Ali Barada, France 24, Asharq Al-Awsat; Oscar Bolanos, OMB News, Sherwin Bryce-Pease, SABC South Africa - Alexander Hassanein, The Tokyo Shimbun, Maria Khrenova, TASS, Philippe Rater, Agence France-Presse, Kaori Yoshida, Nikkei, Betul Yuruk, Anadolu Agency at president@unca.com, valeria.robecco@gmail.com, nabisaab@gmail.com, mjg222888@gmail.com, elederer@ap.org, giampioli@aol.com, lindafasulo@gmail.com, ibtisam.azem@alaraby.co.uk, abarada@hotmail.com, ombyvozque@gmail.com, s.brycepease@gmail.com, alexander@tokyoshimbun.us, khrenova_m@tass.ru, philippe.rater@afp.com, kaori.yoshida@nex.nikkei.com, byuruk@aa.com.tr
Three of the 15 are from French media, two from Italy, with various dictatorships represented.
Newly "elected" is Carrie Neuton of Le Monde, with 32 votes. She is now responsible for the UNCA board's lack of response to a law firm's letter about their / her role in censorship. Will there be a response?
We'll have more on this. Watch this site.
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