UN's Ban Questioned on Record, on Sri Lanka, Half Time Pep Talk

[ Inner City Press ][ Jun 12 12:13 GMT ]






Half way into the five year term as UN Secretary General he was awarded in 2006, Ban Ki-moon on June11 tried to defend low grades he has received for his management of the UN and not "speaking truth to power." At Mr. Ban's press conference for June, his spokesperson Michele Montas pointedly did not call on Inner City Press. Only a week before she had said the UN should be able to regulate the Press, after a memo revealed her attendance at a May 8 meeting at which legal threats and "complaining to Google News" about Inner City Press was discussed. On June 11, she looked elsewhere to award the right to question. But CNN's longtime correspondent, characteristically classy, yielded his question to Inner City Press. [ full story