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UN GATE, September 4 – How corrupt is today’s United Nations and its internal UN press corps? For this week of the United Nations General Assembly 2022, the UN, while inviting diplomats from around the world like the Ambassador of South Sudan who recently raped a woman in New York and then fled with the diplomatic immunity, limited media access to only correspondents “residing in the state’s tri-region or Washington, D.C.”
The announcement was discreetly placed on the UN website.
Firstly, “NOTE ON UNGA: In order to manage the overall risk related to COVID-19 during the high-level period of the General Assembly (UNGA), entry to the United Nations will be limited to pass holders. move from long-term press”.
When you click to see what “long term” means (after the UN under Guterres ousted Inner City Press which covered Ban Ki-moon and even the late Kofi Annan), you find it means correspondents “residing in the tri-state area”. or Washington, D.C. »
This was presaged by a cryptic message from the patroness of the United Nations Correspondents’ Association, Valeria Robecco, who, like Melissa Fleming, censor of the UNSG Media Liaison and Accreditation Unit Antonio Guterres , declined to respond to a polite letter about press access from pro bono law firm Quinn Emanuel, here.
So the less than 100 correspondents, both state media and retirees, who make up the UN Correspondents Association (which has partnered with a Chinese government fraudster whose corruption indictment was unsealed Sept. 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York) have sold-out reporters all over the world — and, as with Inner City Press, in New York City.
We will have more on this.
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