With Blinken in NY US Silent on UN No-Vax UNGA and Censorship, Cameroon & Haiti
In UN's Super Spreader Bowl of Hypocrisy, unvaccinated Bolsonaro will speak just before Biden, while UNSG Antonio Guterres still bans the Press that asks
By Matthew Russell Lee, PatreonPodcast
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 20 – With US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken now in New York City for the UN General Assembly for which no proof of vaccination is required (Brazil's proudly unvaccinated Bolsonaro is the first speaker), on September 20 US Department of State Bureau of International Organization Affairs Senior Bureau Official Erica Barks-Ruggles held a press call.
She spoke about the importance of vaccination. But what of UN Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres rebuffing New York City law that proof of vaccination should be required to enter the UNGA hall?
And what about Guterres and his (American) head of media accreditation banning Inner City Press and others, in favor of a small group of disproportionately state media and retirees? Podcast here.
Inner City Press wrote to the State Department and US Mission to the UN in August about this, well in advance of the UNGA High Level week. It cited the law firm Quinn Emanuel's letter to the UN and its partners, video here
But no action, even as Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on September 20 gave a speech about sexual violence, another issue on which Guterres covers up the UN's abuses.
Barks-Ruggles declined to say if Blinken will try to meet with his French counter-part; on Iran she said the UN will stick with the Vienna format. There was almost nothing about Africa, much less Cameroon and Nigeria or the coup in Guinea, nor about Haiti.
But Inner City Press will continue to pursue all these issues - watch this site.
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