UN Deletes Corruption & Kagame Qs from Congo Summary

By Matthew Russell Lee
May 22, 2012
The Inner City Press
http://www.innercitypress.com/banpress1congo052212.html
UNITED NATIONS, May 22 -- Not only does the UN under Ban Ki-moon and his spokesman Martin Nesirky cut off follow up questions about corruption, as happened to Inner City Press Tuesday while questioning Congo envoy Roger Meece about a http://innercitypress.com/meece3mills042312.html delayed and ill-conceived Quick Impact Project in Walikale -- now, Ban's UN has erased any trace of the corruption question from its summary of Meece's press conference.
  Compare http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2012/05/daily-press-briefing-332.html video here, from Minute 14, with http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2012/120522_Guest.doc.htm this UN press release which also omits Inner City Press' question about historic links between Bosco Ntanganda, indicted by the International Criminal Court, and Rwanda.  
  Less than a week ago, Ban's Secretariat sought to censor an already published Inner City Press http://www.innercitypress.com/banpress1syria051712.html story about its failing observer mission in Syria.
On Tuesday after the now-erased questions to Meece, Nesirky allowed Inner City Press only one question -- on its March 28 scoop of US Middle East official Jeffrey Feltman coming to as Ban's main political adviser -- then refused a question on another Ban adviser, on peacekeeping, alleged Sri Lankan war criminal Shavendra Silva.
It's one thing for Nesirky to on-camera cut off question: at least that can be seem. But for the UN's public information machinery to produce purported summaries that leave out not only major questions, but also a long answer from Ban's own envoy Meece? This has descended into propaganda. If you can't trust Ban's UN on simply things like summaries, what can you trust it on? 

Footnote: while ultimately this is on the watch of Ban Ki-moon and, it is noted, a fish rots from the head, it will be interesting to follow the chain that leads to this type of absurd censorship and erasure, as a new head of DPI -- Inner City Press has http://www.innercitypress.com/dpi1usgs052112.htmlhttp:/www.innercitypress.com/dpi1usgs052112.html named the Greek former minister Lambrinidis -- comes in. Watch this site.