by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 4 – The UN under Antonio Guterres, which has failed on Ukraine, Sudan and elsewhere, while banning the Press that asks questions, now wants to whitewash its failures in a grandly named Summit of the Future.
The Group of 77 and China, led by a diplomat who fled New York City amid domestic violence charges, has already pushed Guterres around.
Still he has just put out a first grandly named Policy Brief - tellingly, on Outer Space. Here's the pitch, leaked by Inner City Press by multiple UN staff disgusted by what Guterres has done to the UN, and to the Press:
From: DGC_DIS_UNIT dgc_dis_unit at un.org Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2023 1:32 AM
Subject: Revised: Launch of the Secretary-General's Policy Brief on Outer Space
Dear Colleagues, As you are aware, in the lead up to the Summit of the Future in September 2024, the UN Secretary-General is issuing a series of Policy Briefs to provide more detail on select proposals contained in Our Common Agenda. Coinciding with the annual meeting of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, (COPUS 2023), the Policy Brief on Outer Space has now been released. Attached are the following elements for use on your platforms/dissemination to your networks:
· Outer Space policy Brief in six languages available on the OCA website; · One page brief summary (attached); · Social Media plan - the initial post is intended for the UN and SG social media accounts, while the penholders (UNOOSA, ITU and ODA) will share the remaining content. The visual assets are accessible on Trello and can be repurposed by the DGC social media team
[Jac Topacio shared Communications - External with you. +9 Join Jac Topacio, carolina.gasiorowski, ONU Brasil and 9 others in collaborating on this board]
Contacts to penholders: David Kelly (EOSG) kellyd@un.org Michael Spies (ODA) spiesm@un.org Markus Woltran markus.woltran@un.org Please contact @Jackquelyn Kay Topacio in EOSG in case you should have any questions. Thank you for your usual support in promoting the Policy Brief widely. Best regards, Janos Mr. Janos Tisovszky Officer-in-Charge Campaigns and Country Operations Division Department of Global Communications "
We'll have more on this.
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