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By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Complaint
UN GATE, March
23 – After the Burma coup regime purported to
fired its New York-based UN ambassador U Kyaw
Moe Tun for his speech in New York in the
usually scripted UN General Assembly, two
Burmese were criminally charged with trying to
kill him. One was been detained, as
exclusively live tweeted by Inner City Press,
below.
On August 11,
20 year-old Ye Hein Zaw, who with a Burmese
interpreter got his income approved on April 6
as low enough for free counsel hired a private
attorney, one who is described
as a Wall Street lawyer half of whose clients
are French: Matthew Galluzzo.
On
December 10, a guilty plea: today the guilty
plea of YE HEIN ZAW, a citizen of Myanmar, for
his role in a conspiracy to assault and make a
violent attack upon Myanmar’s Permanent
Representative to the United Nations.
ZAW pled guilty today in White Plains federal
court before U.S. District Judge Philip M.
Halpern.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As he
admitted in court today, Ye Hein Zaw
participated in a plot to injure or kill
Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations in
a planned attack that was to take place on
American soil. Zaw now awaits sentencing
for his crime. I commend the tireless
efforts of our law enforcement partners at all
levels of government to ensure the safety of
foreign diplomats and officials in the United
States and bring the perpetrators of this plot
to
justice.”
According to the Information to which ZAW pled
guilty, the complaint that was filed in this
case, and statements made during court
proceedings:
Between at least in or about July 2021 through
at least on or about August 5, 2021, ZAW, a
citizen of Myanmar residing in New York,
conspired with others to injure or kill
Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the
United Nations (the “Ambassador”).
During the conspiracy, a co-conspirator
communicated with an arms dealer in Thailand
(the “Arms Dealer”) who sells weapons to the
Burmese military, which overthrew Myanmar’s
civilian government in or about February
2021. In the course of those
conversations, the co-conspirator and the Arms
Dealer agreed on a plan in which the
co-conspirator would hire attackers to hurt
the Ambassador in an attempt to force the
Ambassador to step down from his post.
If the Ambassador did not step down, then the
Arms Dealer proposed that the attackers hired
by the co-conspirator would kill the
Ambassador.
Shortly after agreeing on the plan, ZAW
contacted the co-conspirator by cellphone and,
using a money transfer app, transferred
approximately $4,000 to the co-conspirator as
an advance payment on the plot to attack the
Ambassador. Later, during a recorded
phone conversation, ZAW and the co-conspirator
discussed how the planned attackers would
require an additional $1,000 to conduct the
attack on the Ambassador in Westchester
County, and, for an additional payment, the
attackers could, in substance, kill the
Ambassador. In response, ZAW agreed, in
substance, to pay the additional $1,000 and to
try to obtain the additional money. ZAW
is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Halpern
on May 10, 2022."
On March 16,
2022, this: "STIPULATION IN SUPPORT OF
APPLICATION FOR 8TH OR SUBSEQUENT ORDER OF
CONTINUANCE AND 8TH ORDER OF CONTINUANCE as to
Phyo Hein Htut. Time excluded from 3/16/2022
until 4/13/2022. (Signed by Magistrate Judge
Judith C. McCarthy on 3/16/2022)"
Jump cut to
March 2023, when Htut is approaching a July 10
trial in SDNY in White Plains. He has asked
for US public money to put on a witness from
Myanmar, who would say Htut was a pro
democracy activist. The US said if the unnamed
witness is deposed, it should be in White
Plains. Then, two sealed documents.
Burma
did not speak at the UNGA High Level Week,
from which UNSG Antonio Guterres and PGA
Abdulla Shahid banned Inner City Press.
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
March 22 – The United Nations, exempting
itself from all laws including about press
freedom and whistleblower protection, under SG
Antonio Guterres not only fires staff who
criticize Guterres and ousts
journalists which report on him.
Now
Guterres' misuse of UN Security to physically
bar his critics from entry, ostensibly as
being threatening, has spread from New York to
Geneva.
In July
2018, Guterres had Inner City Press physically
roughed up and ousted as it reported on his
deal with the UN Fifth (Budget) Committee
then-chair Cameroon to remain silent about
Paul Biya's slaughter of Anglophones in
exchange for financial favors in the
Committee.
Since then, a
total ban on re-entry has been in place,
despite among other things a pro bono letter
from the Quinn Emanuel law firm (here),
cc-ed to the so-called UN Correspondents
Association and the US State Department.
Now from
Geneva Inner City Press learns that UN
whistleblower Emma Reilly, who expose the UN
giving the names of Chinese dissidents set to
testify there to the Chinese CCP government,
had not only been fired by Guterres, but now
banned from entry to give a speech, by
Guterres' hand-picked "Human Rights"
Commissioner Volker Turk.
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, March 14 – How corrupt
is today's UN?
Well, on March
14 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres gave
a top UN job to a longtime member and
supporter of Syria's Assad government,
Abdallah Al Dardari.
UN
spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who refuses to
answer even the written questions of Inner
City Press he and Guterres had banned from the
UN, announced " the appointment of Abdallah Al
Dardari of Syria as Assistant
Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and
Director, Regional Bureau for Arab States of
the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP). He was Chairman of the State Planning
Commission in Syria, until he became Deputy
Prime Minister for Economic
Affairs."
This is today's UN...
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
UN GATE, March 10 – Hypocrisy
and careerism
are nothing
new in the
UN. Now
Human Rights
Watch has a
new executive
director
Tirana Hassan
- and the
press
conference was
limited to
members of a
group with
Chinese state
media on its
board and
Iran's IRIB
as a member,
which worked
to throw the
Press out of
the UN, the
United Nations
Correspondents
Association.
That Tirana
Hassan was
colluding with
an
organization
which bans
Press -
actually two,
the UN and its
UN or UN
Censorship
Alliance - was
known to her:
she follows
Inner City
Press on
Twitter, and
her UN rep was
part of
getting Inner
City Press
ousted from
UNCA (for
exposing corruption
of the
organization's
then
President) and
then ousted
from the UN
(natch -
Antonio
Guterres' undisclosed
financial link
to bribery
firm CEFC
China Energy).
Now
on March 10
HRW trumpets
that two of
its staff have
been banned
from Bahrain.
Fine, we'll
report it. But
note that HRW
has been fine
with and
colluded in
the UN's ban
of Press.
This
UNCA and its
executive
committee
member are so
arrogant they
didn't even
respond to an
inquiry
about their
position on UN
access from
the Quinn
Emanuel law
firm,
representing
Inner City
Press pro
bono, here.
Birds of a
feather.
Here was the
promotion:
"Human Rights
Watch is
pleased to
invite members
of the United
Nations
Correspondents
Association to
an in-person
press
conference at
UN
Headquarters
on Thursday,
March 9, 2023,
at 2:00 p.m.
EST. In
her debut
press
appearance at
UN
headquarters,
Human Rights
Watch’s acting
executive
director,
Tirana Hassan,
will discuss
and take
questions on
the main human
rights
challenges for
2023. Who:
Tirana Hassan,
acting
executive
director Louis
Charbonneau,
UN
director
When:
Thursday,
March 9, 2023.
Where: UNCA
Room (S-310)
at UN
Headquarters.
This press
conference is
open to all
UNCA members."
Open to UNCA
members,
largely state
media and
retirees.
HRW's UN rep
also worked
to get Inner
City Press
banned from
the UN, and
made false
copyright claims to cover
up his
role. Will
Tirana Hassan
be any
different? An
appeal is
pending, here
- it is a
litmus case.
This is
today's UN -
hours after
the event,
there was no
video, and
that only
story from an
aggregation
site and only
on Nicaragua.
They claim
they spoke on
China - in
secret, to a
group with
CCTV on the
board.
Corrupt.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
Book
UN GATE, March
1 – With Mozambique taking over presidency of
the UN Security Council on March 1, 2023, on
February 28 Inner City Press wrote to the
Mozambique Mission to the UN to request in
advance access to its March 1 press conference
by Ambassador Pedro Comissário Afonso.
To
submit the request, Inner City Press wrote to
the Mozambique Mission at its UN Blue Book
address and at the UN email addresses listed
by its purported partner - that is, mozambique
at un dot int and mozambique dote unmission at
gmail dot com
From the
Mozambique Mission, nothing at all. The
Mission is not on Twitter or other social
media. The Ambassador dodges a question about
a trip or junket to DRC, and said the UNSC's
failure does not impact its credibility.
Because it's already shot? Video here.
Inner
City Press asked the Mozambique Mission, and
the UN, about the MONUSCO scandal - sex for UN
Volunteer jobs paid with taxpayers' funds - in
the DRC Congo. Inner City Press exclusive here.
Also: "On December 2, 2022 I was told to file
an appeal with DSS and I did on December 5 -
you should ensure response (there has been
none) and granting. See here."
This
while Inner City Press is banned
from entry, which it had for years until it
exposed UN corruption. No response to this
July 2021 appeal. Impunity.
Inner
City Press will be covering the Mozambique
presidency, quite actively, this month.
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Eastern
Front
UN GATE, Feb
21 – There
is much to say
about the
now-full year
of war in
Ukraine. But
the focus here
is on the
total failure
of the United
Nations, and
even more of
its Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres.
Guterres, who
has a pattern
of being
obsequious to
strongmen like
China's Xi,
with whom he
glad-handed at
the Beijing
Olympics
without saying
a world about
the genocide
against the
Uighurs in
Xinjiang,
initially told
his staff not
to call what
happened in
Ukraine an
invasion.
Once
he was outed,
he pushed
forward to try
to help sell
Russian
ammonia,
through a
Houston-based
commodities
firm, no less.
Thus to keep
the UN
Security
Council's
Permanent Five
members
content. The
war
continues.
When
questioned
about his
actions -
Inner City
Press asked
about
Guterres'
cover up of
his links to
convicted UN
briber China
Energy Fund
Committee, and
how he chose
the
Houston-based
firm - his
response,
through
"Department of
Global
Communications"
chief Melissa
Fleming, as
been to keep
Inner City
Press banned
from entry.
His
spokesperson
Stephane
Dujarric
refuses all of
Inner City
Press' written
questions.
Now UN General
Assembly
president
Csaba Korosi,
who followed
suit and
blocked Inner
City Press
from his
"Civil Society
Town Hall,"
will hold an
entirely
symbolic UNGA
meeting Feb 22
and 23, and
perhaps 24.
His
spokesperson
Paulina Kubiak
told Inner
City Press it
could appeal
the ban - but
UN DSS chief
Gilles Michaud
has entirely
ignored the
December 5,
2022
appeal.
How long will
those with
unrealistic
and/or
self-serving
dreams about
the UN allow
Guterres to
continue
this?
On February 20, Presidents' Day in the US, Joe Biden showed up in Kyev. On November 21, NRC said One year on from the start of the Ukraine war, NRC has found that seven out of ten refugees who fled to Poland, Moldova and Romania said they are struggling to make ends meet. As President Biden prepares to speak in Warsaw later today [Feb 21] NRC is calling on host countries and international donors to not forget about the plight of refugees.. [But Tony's UN has moved on, while still conniving to help sell Russian ammonia through Trammo or otherwise]. More respondents in Poland and Moldova report having moved to substandard housing to reduce their costs compared to those in Romania, and relatively more people in Moldova – particularly the Roma community – have resorted to borrowing money since they fled Ukraine. Usurious nations.. More responses follow. Watch this site.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
UN GATE, Feb
18 – How corrupt is today's
United Nations under Antonio
Guterres? The head man
files
incomplete financial
disclosure,
then throws
out the
Press that asks
about it. PGA Csaba
Korosi follows
suit and bans Inner
City Press
from his
"Civil Society
Town Hall,"
which UN DSS
Head Gilles
Michaud
ignores the appeal
the PGA's
spokesperson
Paulina Kubiak
said to file.
No answers, so
more stories.
Here's today's,
from
whistleblower:
"Hi
Matt, We know you'll
get this out there for us.
The drama in the UN never
ends, just changes positions
like the game of musical
chairs . . . It's
pointless reporting through
the internal channels since
Justice is rarely served
especially when it's seniors
being exposed. What the so
called investigating entity
(OIOS) does is, they
delegate the Case to the
accused persons
organization, so a team of
Legal officers who have no
idea what investigation is
all about, are the ones who
determine the Case!
There's
a previous incident where a
hiring manager in UNEP got a
crooked colleague to change
assessment results of her
preferred candidate, one Ms.
Atifa Kassam, (who had
otherwise failed the
assessment) so that she made
it to the interview and
subsequently got the job, a
P3 post. . . fair and
transparent recruitment
indeed? Similar story
for a GS-4 position (still
in UNEP) where all
candidates failed the
technical assessment, but
the crooked lead panelist
opted to cook the test
results and proceed to the
oral interviews with a bunch
of his preferred candidates.
Correct procedure should
have been to cancel the
process and start over but .
. . so someone somewhere in
the UN system is earning a
salary in a position they
did not rightfully get?
That's the United Nations
Matt.
UN
talks of mandatory GGST
certification for General
Service posts right? The
list of staff who've skewed
their way through into the
system without GGST
certification is
endless. Perhaps you
could get us answers from
USG-DMSPC Catherine Pollard,
or ASG-OHRM Martha Lopez and
tell us why? (Casing example
is one HRO, Feezah
Kyambadde, who is well known
for bypassing candidates
without GGST certification
into the system). And
guess what, in UNEP again,
one Annette Waweru,
facilitated a junior staff
getting "exceptional
approval" to take the GGST a
6th time . . . and
"miraculously" got the post
of Finance and Budget
Assistant!
Well, "Policy"
says only 5 attempts for the
GGST is allowed, but how
come this staffer got an
extra chance? Could others
also be given 'that extra
chance' to try?. This is
what free and fair
recruitment is all about?
Please get us answers from
USG-DOS Atul Khare.
And just so that the world
knows, you can be
interviewed as early as 3 or
4am for a job in the UN, and
still not be selected for
it, despite being the best
candidate!
Matt, if
you could get your hands on
the raw audio recording [Ed.'s note: please
send it to us, it will go straight
unto Soundcloud
after another
non-response from
corupt UN
Spokesperson Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa Fleming)
for
the interview of this
position you'll notice
something with the 2
candidate being interviewed.
Clearly, she was reading
from a pre-written script
and in passing, even
mentions having had a
meeting with the panel chair
the previous night! What
does that tell you about her
selection to the post? Try
getting answers from the
UNEP Chief of Staff - Rafael
Peralta or Chief of HR -
Carlos Serrano (good luck if
either assents
to releasing the truth . .
.). The post JO:140108 was
for a Director.
And still on
the UNEP Director position
just mentioned, using your
network, if you could
discreetly get in touch with
the Japanese Ambassador to
the UN in New York, and let
him know that their national
(Yoko Watanabe, UNDP) with
over 20 years experience in
the UN, was short changed!
She was the best candidate
and the panel had agreed on
her selection, but her name
was changed by the chief
panelist at the last minute,
and an American with just 2
years in the UN from USAID
was selected instead. The
raw recordings can prove it
and those present during her
interview, if brave enough,
can attest to what
transpired behind the
scenes. It'd be a waste of
precious time reporting this
to the OIOS, nothing will
happen. Maybe the Ambassador
could take SG Guterres
head-on for answers and for
Justice to be served for
their national. Shift
focus to New York
Headquarters where bending
rules rather than enforcing
them is the norm . . .
Policy, Rules,
Regulations are compromised
by the very persons in
senior positions to enforce
them. Example, staff members
share their login
credentials with Interns and
make these poor, overworked,
unpaid colleagues do their
donkey work for them -
including recruitment of
staff! Yes Matt, it's
happening right in the UN
Headquarters. Never mind
that the "Policy" says
non-staff (interns, UNVs,
Contractors and Consultants)
should not be involved in
recruitment! Casing example
is a section called
Disarmament, Demobilization
and Reintegration Unit
headed by one Tomas
Kontogeorgos. Could you
please check if UN IT boss,
ASG Bernard Mariano, is
aware what his 'senior
colleagues' are up to,
sharing their login
credentials with interns who
are never paid despite their
credible output? Oh
boy Matt, there's
stench and rot behind the
glamour of the UN logo.
Keep it
coming. And watch this
site.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UN GATE
EXCLUSIVE, Feb 7 – How
corrupt is
today's United
Nations, under
Antonio
Guterres?
Well,
consider
UNRWA, under
Philippe
Lazzarini.
Inner City
Press for two
days has asked
Guterres'
spokespeople
Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa
Fleming -- the
second day
cc-ing
Lazzarini
himself -
about
complaints and
evidence that
whistleblowers
have provided
to Inner City
Press about
what is
formally
knowns as the
United Nations
Relief and
Works Agency
for Palestine
Refugees in
the Near East.
No response at
all, while
Dujarric
laughs and
services state
media and his
partners in
censorship,
with whom he
worked to
target and now
ban Inner
City Press.
So
here's some of
the story,
with more to
come:
Dear
Matthew
Russell Lee /
Inner City
Press: We are
a group of
UNRWA staff
who are
witnessing
daily
violations and
abuses and are
unable to do
anything about
it due to
bullying and
fear of
retaliation by
the senior
management.
We have
several
documented
cases of abuse
and fraud by
senior
directors who
are protected
by the
commissioner
general.
We saw your
reporting and
we are asking
if you are
interested to
write about
such cases in
order for us
to disseminate
wider once
these issues
are
reported.
Examples:
1- A Senior
Director was
recruited at
D1 level when
he failed the
P5 interview
10 months
earlier.
This was a
direct
intervention
of Christian
Saunders when
he was acting
USG of the
Agency.
2-
That same
Senior
Director who
is a former
colleague and
a friend of
the director
of HR bullies
staff.
When staff
report those
actions to the
ethics office
and to the
internal audit
department,
the complaints
are
ignored.
3-
That same
Director
announces a
vacancy in his
department and
interviews
candidates.
He selects his
preferred
candidate and
makes her an
offer.
When she
refuses the
fees, he
decides to
cancel the
vacancy and
lies to the HR
department
saying, no
candidate was
found
suitable.
45
days later, he
announces the
same vacancy
at 300%
increase of
the initial
salary.
When HR asks
him to
interview
candidates, he
says, no
because he had
selected a
candidate from
previous
interviews.
Head of HR
because of his
close
friendship
with the
director
(formerly
colleagues at
UNICEF), he
agrees.
WE have copies
of the two
contracts with
same ToRs but
different
amounts of
fees.
4- Tribunal
judgment calls
for
accountability
with two
persons
(Director of
HR and deputy
director of
Syria field
office)
because they
knowingly
offered a
contract to an
unqualified
candidate who
is proven to
have false
information on
her
PhP/CV.
Nothing
happens.
5-
A staff member
seeks
protection
against
retaliation
from the
ethics
office.
That request
is ignored for
months.
When the staff
members
provide
additional
concrete solid
evidence of
harassment, he
is granted
protection.
The evidence
is very strong
and qualifies
for a
dismissal.
The case is
forwarded for
investigation
without
putting the
staff on any
preventive
action.
Harassment and
bullying
continues
knowing that
the
investigation
will lead to
nothing.
6- Report of
two
independent
consultants
show how
senior
management is
bullying staff
with a strong
report.
The report is
hidden and
nothing
happens.
On the
morning of
February 6,
Inner City
Press sent the
above for
comment to
dozens of UN
officials, and
Malta's
Mission to the
UN under
Vanessa
Frazier, as
UNSC president
for February.
No answer at
all. Now this
was sent,
nothing, so
publishing:
UNRWA Snr.
Management
ignores
accountability.
Staff
complaints to
ethics and
DIOS are
ignored
selectively.
UNRWA
management
under Phillipe
Lazzarrini and
his team
promised
donors to work
with
transparency
and
accountability.
In reality,
what is
happening is
the exact
opposite.
Management
assessment
report
prepared by
two individual
independent
consultants
showed several
serious
violations and
mismanagement.
The report was
requested and
paid by the
German
government via
GIZ.
After
several
attempts by
Lazzarini to
intervene with
the findings,
the report was
hidden.
Instead of
handling the
serious
issues, he
decided to
call for a
team building
exercise which
included
cooking class
for his Snr
Directors.
Directors who
do not agree
with him and
his deputy are
marginalized
and eventually
pushed
out.
Those who
maintain bad
relations with
the
communities
and staff are
promoted.
An example of
this promotion
is the most
recent
appointment of
Dorothe Kalaus
(Germany) to
the director
of Lebanon
field.
Briefly before
the arrival of
Lazzarini,
Christian
Saunders was
appointed by
his friend the
Secretary
General as
acting
Commissioner-General
for
UNRWA.
During his
acting period,
he added more
than $100
million
annually as
unjustified
additional
costs.
This is all in
the middle of
a serious
funding crisis
which was
threatening
the existence
of the
Agency.
In addition,
Saunders
intervened in
appointments
of several of
his friends.
Brian Baker, a
national of
the UK and a
former UNICEF
staff member,
was moved out
of Gaza a few
years back for
his problems
with the
community.
He was
interviewed in
Jan 2019 for a
P5 position of
chief
security.
The Panel
found him
unsuitable and
opted for
another
candidate of
an Egyptian
nationality.
Less
than a year
later, Brian
was appointed
as a Director
of Security
and Risk
management
with a fraud
process
orchestrated
by the
Director of
Human
Resources
Antonino Brusa
who is a
friend and a
former
colleague of
Brian
Baker.
The process
was a
fraud.
The head of
the Panel was
a UNICEF staff
and the then
direct
supervisor of
Brian
Baker.
He was
invited
by Brusa to
chair a
panel.
There was
never in the
history of the
Agency such an
action.
Panel members
disagreed with
the chair
(Brian's
supervisor at
UNICEF) and
did not select
Brian.
Antonino Brusa
informed the
panel members
that lets send
the case to
the acting
commissioner-general
for his
decision.
Saunders
overruled the
panel members'
views and
approved the
appointment of
Brian Baker at
D1 level.
That same
person did not
qualify for a
P5 with the
same agency a
few months
earlier.
Baker within
months of his
appointment,
fired the
Egyptian P5
person who
competed
against
him.
With
fabricated
accusations
and in close
coordination
with friend
Antonino
Brusa, the
investigation
took a couple
of weeks for a
final decision
to be approved
with
dismissal.
This
way, Baker got
rid of his
first
target.
A few months
later, Brian
Baker seeks a
recruitment of
a local
consultant and
he publishes
an
announcement
for that
position.
He selected
his preferred
candidate and
offered her a
contract
valued at
approximately
usd 1300
monthly.
She turned
down the
contract.
Brian writes
to HR and
informs them
that he
intends to
cancel the
vacancy
instead of
proceeding
with the
second
selected
candidate.
A couple of
weeks later,
he replaced
the vacancy
with an
international
consultancy
with a monthly
fee of USD
5000.
After he
announces the
vacancy, HR
asks him to
shortlist
candidates.
Brian
strongly
refuses to do
so and gets
the approval
of the
Director of HR
to proceed
with the
recruitment of
the same
selected
candidate of
the local
consultant.
Two contracts
are
attached.
Same
candidate,
same ToRs,
different
value with
more than 300%
increase.
The Director
of HR
intentionally
ignores those
violations and
approves
whatever his
friend
wants.
Baker
continues with
his actions
without any
questioning by
any of the
Snr.
Management
people.
He then brings
another friend
from UNICEF
Yara Dababneh
on another
consultancy
contract.
Less
than a year
later Yara
receives a P4
contract with
external
relations with
the help of
Brian.
The Director
of HR brings
in another
UNICEF former
colleague in a
fabricated
pre-planned
process.
Julliette
Touma who
holds a fake
Palestinian
nationality (
in reality she
holds an
Israeli
citizenship
but she was
able to
receive a
Palestinian
travel
document and
not a
nationality).
She records
her
nationality
with UNRWA as
Palestinian
and she was
appointed at
D1
level.
Ms.Touma
was originally
assisted by
her friend
from OCHA (
David Shearer
who was DSRSG
for UNAMI
Iraq) to
become an
international
staff of the
UN at P2 level
in yet another
fake process.
He wanted her
to move from
GS6 position
directly to P4
but then
agreed to a P2
due to her
lack of
experience.
After serving
UNICEF
regional
office in
Jordan, she
was asked to
seek another
opportunity
outside of
UNICEF.
Her friend
Brusa
immediately
picked her up
to become the
spokesperson
and the
director of
communications
for
UNRWA.
In Syria field
office, UNRWA
tribunal
issued a
judgment
related to
violation and
abuse of
power.
A
Selection of a
senior staff
was found
incorrect by
the Advisory
Committee of
HR.
While digging
into the
qualifications,
they
discovered
that the
selected staff
provided false
information on
her CV.
The director
of HR, Brusa
lets the case
rest for a
couple of
months and
then agreed
with the
deputy
director of
Syria office
to offer that
same candidate
a
contract.
One of the non
selected staff
appealed the
decision to
the tribunal
and won her
case.
The judgment
calls for
accountability
for those who
violated the
process.
Lazzarini does
nothing to
this date and
the selected
staff remains
at her new job
in
Syria.
Back to Baker.
A couple of
months ago
following one
of his staff
providing a
witness
statement to
the Tribunal,
he started
bullying and
harassing him.
Brian
also informed
the witness
staff thast
his position
was
abolished.
When the staff
reported his
case to the
ethics office,
the case was
delayed and
ignored.
The staff
provided
additional
very serious
and concrete
evidence to
the ethics
office.
The case was
immediately
forwarded to
the
investigation
after the
ethics office
concluded a
prima facie
case of
retaliation.
The decision
of abolishing
the post was
put on hold.
Brian and
because of his
untouched
protection by
the Director
of HR and by
the
Commissioner-General,
remains
working at his
position.
Other less
serious cases
are
immediately
put on
administrative
leave pending
the outcome of
investigation.
The evidence
provided to
the ethics
office
included proof
of bullying,
retaliation
and
harassment,
It also
included
Brian's
comments about
the
uselessness of
ethics and
DIOS in his
opinion.
Lazzarini,
upon his
arrival,
assigned an
official UNRWA
vehicle for
more than a
year to be
used by his
wife.
The car gets
hit by his
wife and
repaired at
the expense of
the Agency
when the
accident was
reported as
official.
That
is today's UN,
with Inner
City Press
still banned
from entering
to ask these
questions in
person, and
its December
5, 2022 appeal
not even
responded to.
Totally
corrupt.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
SDNY COURT
Exclusive, Feb 1 – A United
Nations budget expert in New
York drugged and raped a
woman; a default judgment
was awarded against him on
February 1, 2023 in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New
York.
Inner
City Press, which has been
banned from the UN for
asking about its sexual
abuses, was there in court.
But the
defendant, Mutaz Hyassat,
was not. Nor was anyone from
the United Nations, on whose
Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary
Questions Hyassat served at
the time of the rape, nor
from the UN missions of
Jordan nor of the United
States.
The
victim worked for the US
Treasury Department at the
time of the rape.
Hyassat
lured her to El Rio Grande
restaurant at 160 E. 38th
Street where he plied her
with a pink drink with GHB
in it.
Hyassat
raped her overnight. He
continues to work for the
Jordanian foreign ministry,
as chief of legal
administration, it was said
on February 1. Doe was present in
the courtroom.
Hyassat refused
to ever answer the rape
charges against him. But on
February 1 Judge Paul G.
Gardephe found that
Hyassat's immunity as an
ACABQ member was only
functional, in connection
with this work. Despite the
pervasive corruption of the
UN under SG Antonio
Guterres, rape is still not
part of ACABQ's work.
Judge
Gardephe granted and entered
a default judgment and
referred it for a
Magistrates' inquest on
damages.
Plaintiff Jane Doe is seeking $1.25 million. UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, and USG Melissa Fleming whose department keeps Inner City Press banned from entering the UN to ask, refuse to answer written questions. The case is Doe v. Hyassat, 18-cv-6110 (Gardephe)
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
UN GATE, Jan
25 – The UN
community in New York, clad
in tuxedos and expensive
gowns and cloaked in
impunity and anonymity,
converged on December 9,
2022 for a glitzy event in
Cipriani at 25 Broadway in
lower Manhattan.
Inner City
Press, banned from the UN by
Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres,
was outside, asking
questions. It asked
Guterres, as he entered, why
he had said nothing about
the 7000 migrant worker
Qatar killed when he visited
the World Cup there.
Video here.
But where
was the Deputy Secretary General Amina J.
Mohammed, who watched
and benefited while
Inner City Press was
caged with a mind on
the UN's second
floor - and did
nothing - and now on
its ban since -
where was and is
she? She was
misspeaking in
Geneva:
she said, "just
last week, the
General Assembly’s
Fifth Committee
agreed to
establish and
fully fund a
dedicated UN Youth
Office."
But
apparently
that wasn't
true, or
jumped the
gun. Now a
sanitized version:
"at the end of
the 76th
session, the
General
Assembly
agreed to
establish a
dedicated UN
Youth Office."
So
the
Fifth
Committee has NOT
agreed? Note
that it was
while covering
the Fifth
Committee that
Inner City Press was
roughed up
and banned
since. Amina
J. Mohammed. We
said, more
on her role
and actions to
come.
ANd now
there is more,
a bogus
January 25,
2023
"press"
conference
with Inner
City Press
banned,
softball
questions from
retirees and
state media,
full of lies -
video here.
Inner City Press also
asked UN President of the
General Assembly why it had
been banned from his
December 2, 2022 "Civil
Society Town Hall Meeting,"
and then lied to be his
spokesperson Paulina Kubiak,
that there is an appeals
process. Video
here.
UN DSS Gilles
Michaud hasn't even
confirmed receipt, much less
deliberated on the appeal
Inner City Press filed on
December 5, here.
It asked a UN
Correspondent who did a
fundraiser with global
pedophile Ghisline Maxwell
about it.
And, in
defense to the working
paparazzi present, it filmed
but did not question Kate
Hudson, who it seems know
nothing about the UN
Correspondent Association
whose prize she took.
Video here.
On
Twitter video live it asked
Kubiak about the lie, and EU
Ambassador Olof B. Skoog
about being banned (he
seemed to indicate he would
do something, which would be
easy for him - we'll
see). Twitter video 5 at
3:16, here
Event
stakeout video 2
(Egypt), 3,
5,
6
This is the corruption of the UN. Inner City Press' appeal to re-enter and ask these questions as is its right remains pending. Watch this site.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive,
video
UN
GATE, Jan 20 --
The United
Nations under
Antonio
Guterres is so
corrupt that
its head of UN
Security in
Jordan has
been a man who
conducted
assassinations,
perhaps even
of Rafic
Hariri, for
Michel Aoun of
Lebanon.
The UN
Security
official's
name is
Antoine Abi
Samra; he was
a military
officer under
Aoun. He has
been promoted
and protected
by one Igor
Mitrokhin in
the UN
Department of
Safety and
Security,
ostensibly run
by Gilles
Michaud. It is
an
outrage.
see below "Cc:
Najat Rochdi,
Kenneth Gluck"
Michaud,
after Inner
City Press on
December 2,
2022 was told
by PGA Csaba
Korosi's
spokesperson
Paulina Kubiak
it could
appeal to him,
did - and so
response, six
weeks later.
Totally
corrupt.
And
now as to
Gluck, he's
being
considered by
corrupt UNSG
Guterres, with
US support,
for UN deputy
special
representative
for the UN
mission in
Libya, versus
Joanne Adamson
of equally
corrupt UK
Mission. Watch
this site.
Inner City
Press first
asked Guterres
and his
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric about
Mitrokhin in
connection
with South
Sudan, based
on complaints
it received
from
whistleblowers
in the UN
mission there,
UNMISS.
With Dujarric
and Guterres
and his head
of
communications
Melissa
Fleming
refusing to
answer banned
Inner City
Press' written
question, it
nevertheless
asked then reported
why "Igor
Mitrokhin of
UNDSS from
Russia is
pushing David
Shearer, SRSG
of UNMISS and
Principal
Security
Advisor,
Graeme to take
Nikolay
Kovalev of
Russia at all
cost
disregarding
all
rules."
See below.
Now
on September
29 we have
more about
Nikolay
Kovalev in
Gilles
Michaud's
corrupt UN
Security,
which does
everything
possible to
dismiss and
bury
complaints:
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video here,
Vine here
UN
GATE, Jan 14-- Stephane Dujarric,
the lead spokesman of UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres, his
deputy Farhan
Haq and now
Guterres'
Global
Communicator
Melissa
Fleming have
joined their
boss in
personally
covering up
child rapes
and sexual
abuse by UN
personnel,
including
recently a
child rape by
a UN
"peacekeeper"
from Paul
Biya's
Cameroon in DR
Congo.
Even while
they and OIOS
Ben Swanson
purport to
care - and
even answer
questions - on
the UN's cover
up for
Burundian and
Gabon rapes in
CAR in 2017,
they have
adopted
corrupt
Guterres'
solution going
forward: cover
up the cases
in advance.
Rough up and
ban the Press
which asks,
leave inside
only insiders
who ask why
they can't use
the UN
escalator
instead of
walking one or
two flights of
stairs, and
refuse to
answer written
questions.
Their UN is
dying - and
taking young
victims with
it. See Tel
Aviv UNTSO
video first
published by
Inner City
Press on June
23, here,
and Swanson here.
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
Book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA Trial
Book - NY
Mag
UN GATE, Jan 3
– With Japan taking over presidency of the UN
Security Council on January 1, 2023, on
December 30 Inner City Press wrote to the
Japanese Mission to the UN to request in
advance access to its January 3 press
conference by Ambassador Ishikane Kimihiro.
To
submit the request, Inner City Press wrote to
the Japanese Mission at its Blue Book address
and at the UN email addresses listed by its
purported partner, one Shinobu YAMAGUCHI - who
doled out questions on January 3.
Four full days
later from the Japanese Mission, nothing at
all, even after the request was resent on the
morning of January 3.
When Ambassador
Ishikane Kimihiro came
out, directly in front of him in the front row
was a UN Correspondent who did a fundraiser
with convicted global pedophile Ghislaine
Maxwell. Softball questions were asked and
dodged, but not response to Inner City Press'
written questions.
We will cover
the month: Colombia on Jan 11, Yemen on the
16th, "Middle East" on the 18th, Haiti (where
the UN brought cholera) on 24th, and luncheon
with Guterres January 30.
They were
bragging about their still-then unapproved Jan
12 "signature event" about, what else, the
rule of law, in mounting hypocrisy: "open
debate on “The promotion and strengthening of
the rule of law in the maintenance of
international peace and security: the rule of
law among nations”. Japan’s Minister for
Foreign Affairs Hayashi Yoshimasa is expected
to chair the meeting. UN Secretary-General
António Guterres."
Nothing says
rule of law more than Guterres, who has the
Press thrown out without due process, then
lies about their being an appeals process. And
Japan, which claims its focus on the UNSC is
methods of work, leaks its program of work
before the other 14 members have considered
and voted on it. Some method of work.
Inner
City Press asked the Japanese Mission, and the
UN, about the MONUSCO scandal - sex for UN
Volunteer jobs paid with taxpayers' funds - in
the DRC Congo. Inner City Press exclusive here.
Also: "Japan's position on Western Sahara,
Myanmar, North Korea On December 2, 2022 I was
told to file an appeal with DSS and I did on
December 5 - you should ensure response (there
has been none) and granting. See here."
This
while Inner City Press is banned
from entry, which it had for years until it
exposed UN corruption. No response to this
July 2021 appeal. Impunity.
Inner
City Press will be covering the Japan
presidency, quite actively, this month.
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
UNGATE, Dec 30
– How useless
is today's United Nations? They couldn't even
vote on December 23 on taking (largely
stealing) the billions of dollars from US
taxpayers and others. But on December
30, they did.
It was chaired
by UN PGA Csaba Korosi, who banned Inner City
Press from his Civil Society Town Hall, after
his spokesperson told Inner City Press it
could appeal to USG Gilles Michaud, who has
yet to respond.
On the
afternoon of December 30 in the UN basement
where Inner City Press reported on these deals
until it was ousted and banned, dysfunctional
objections were made about funding for
mandates in Syria, Ethiopia
and Palestine - Israel said it wouldn't speak
and US would vote no; it spoke, and US
abstained and praised the UN.
More US
gushing: Ambassador Chris Lu at AmbUNReform tweeted,
"And just like that: UN budget has been
adopted by Fifth Committee and will go to
General Assembly One key reform adopted is
moving to an annual budget on a permanent
basis. It’s a critical reform that furthers
transparency and accountability."
But today's UN
displays neither, and the US Mission of Lu and
Linda Thomas-Greenfield has done nothing about
US-based investigative media Inner City Press
being banned by Antonio Guterres.
In the GA,
there was Portugal, bloviating (video here)
There was
Japen, representive advertising
the New York Giants of football, but Japan
Mission not responded to Inner City Press'
request for access to its Ambassador Ishikane
Kimihiro's January 3 press conference as
president of the Security Council.
None of the
documents were available to the public, as
billions of dollars were being taken. It was
to resume at 6 pm.
These are the
budget meetings Inner City Press used to cover
and expose, in person, until corrupt UNSG
Antonio Guterres had it roughed up and thrown
out while it covered the budget negotiations
in 2018.
Now no
one covers it, which is how the UN likes it.
But they still can't agree how to steal. UNPGA
Csaba Korosi, who banned Inner City Press from
his December 2 "Civil Society Town Hall,"
issued a lame speech, cravenly promoted by
colonial Belgium's mission to the UN.
Inner
City Press' December 5 appeal
of being banned, sent just as Korosi's
spokesperson Paulina Kubiak told it to, has
not even been acknowledge.
Today's UN is totally corrupt. And Inner City Press will stay on it, insisting its appeal be granted, and either way reporting on the UN's corruption. Watch this site.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
UNGATE, Dec 24
– Today's
United Nations asserts it is above any
country's law or decisions.
How else
to interpret reclusive UN Secretary General
Antonio's canned statement, after Burkina Faso
ordered his representative to leave the
country, that only he can do that?
It is
more than a little ironic, since Guterres also
claims for himself the right to physically
oust and ban anyone from the being or
reporting from inside the United Nations, with
no explanation or appeal.
He did
that to Inner City Press on July 3, 2018, and
has maintained the ban since, refusing through
his USG Melissa Fleming to answer a polite
letter from pro bono law firm Quinn Emanuel,
and more recently Inner City Press' appeal
directed, as UNPGA Csaba Korosi's spokesperson
Paulina Kubiak directed, to USG Gilles Michaud
of UN Security.
Guterres' own spokesman Stephane Dujarric has
refused all written questions about it. But
Dujarric issued this:
"The
Secretary-General has learned with regret
that, on 23 December, the transitional
government of Burkina Faso declared the
Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator
of the United Nations and Designated Security
Official in the country, Ms. Barbara Manzi, as
persona non grata. The
doctrine of persona non grata does not apply
to United Nations officials. Under Article 100
and 101 of the United Nations Charter, United
Nations staff members are appointed by the
Secretary-General, responsible only to the
Organization... Only the Secretary-General, as
the Chief Administrative Officer of the
Organization, has the authority to decide,
after careful investigation, with respect to
the withdrawal of any United Nations
official."
What
arrogance. From an organization that for
example killed 10,000 in Haiti by bringing
cholera, and whose SG Guterres defend and
covers up for UN rapists from peacekeepers to
UN "aid(s)" worker Karim Elkorany.
Inner
City Press' December 5 appeal
of being banned, sent just as Korosi's
spokesperson Paulina Kubiak told it to, has
not even been acknowledged.
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Dec 17 – How
corrupt and bought by China
is today's UN?
Well, amid
escalating protests and
repression of anti-Xi
protests of COVID-lockdowns,
from Xinjiang to Shanghai
and Beijing, the UN of SG
Antonio Guterres and his
weak human rights
commissioner Volker Turk
have said nothing.
Amid canned
statements about other
topics, including claims of
UN concern at rapes while
Guterres covered up for UN
rapist Karim Elkorany and
unindicted rapist UN
Peacekeepers, nothing on the
protests in China, the dead
in Urumqi, journalists
including from BCC beaten
up.
This after
Guterres was
sold on December 9 by the UN
Correspondents Association,
which has among its
membership Iran state media
which broadcasts forced
confessions. Guterres refused a
Press question about his
silence in Qatar here.
On December 6, UNCA
released its clean slate of
"leaders" for 2023 -
with no competition for any post.
It
turns
out there were
only 50 voters -
lowest turnout
ever, for a
groups that
claims the
right to block
media globally
from entering
the UN -- and
now
China
has two state media
seats - Xinhua
and CCTV,
replacing AFP
- Russia, Turkey,
and the top
award to a
crony. Some
got as few
of 26 of the
50 votes,
even with no
competition. Photo here.
No
response to Quinn
Emanuel's letter - nor
this appeal
of ban. It's
the UN
Censorship
Alliance.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
UN GATE, Dec 9
– The UN
community in New York, clad
in tuxedos and expensive
gowns and cloaked in
impunity and anonymity,
converged on December 9 for
a glitzy event in Cipriani
at 25 Broadway in lower
Manhattan.
Inner City
Press, banned from the UN by
Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres,
was outside, asking
questions. It asked
Guterres, as he entered, why
he had said nothing about
the 7000 migrant worker
Qatar killed when he visited
the World Cup there.
Video here.
It asked
UN President of the General
Assembly why it had been
banned from his December 2,
2022 "Civil Society Town
Hall Meeting," and then lied
to be his spokesperson
Paulina Kubiak, that there
is an appeals process. Video
here.
UN DSS Gilles
Michaud hasn't even
confirmed receipt, much less
deliberated on the appeal
Inner City Press filed on
December 5, here.
It asked a UN
Correspondent who did a
fundraiser with global
pedophile Ghisline Maxwell
about it.
And, in
defense to the working
paparazzi present, it filmed
but did not question Kate
Hudson, who it seems know
nothing about the UN
Correspondent Association
whose prize she took.
Video here.
On
Twitter video live it asked
Kubiak about the lie, and EU
Ambassador Olof B. Skoog
about being banned (he
seemed to indicate he would
do something, which would be
easy for him - we'll
see). Twitter video 5 at
3:16, here
Event
stakeout video 2
(Egypt), 3,
5,
6
This is the corruption of the UN. Inner City Press' appeal to re-enter and ask these questions as is its right remains pending. Watch this site.
***
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC -
Honduras
- CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag
UN GATE, Dec 2
– For
a United
Nations "Civil
Society Town
Hall" meeting
on December 2,
Inner City
Press was
invited and
had its RSVP
confirmed -
but on First
Avenue, was
told it is
"banned from
the UN."
Tweeted audio
here.
When
it asked the
basis of the
ban, since
none had ever
been
expressed, it
was told by a
UN Security
officer at the
door of 801
First Avenue
that a
supervisor
would come and
explain. None
came, for 40
minutes and
counting.
Inner City
Press e-mailed
the
spokesperson
for the
President of
the General
Assembly Csaba
Korosi, whose
event it was,
and Melissa
Fleming of the
Department of
Global
Communications,
who sat on
stage and
heads UN Media
Accreditation.
Fleming did
not answer, as
she has not
answered a
July 2021
letter about
Press access
from the pro
bono law firm
of Quinn
Emanuel, here.
But
Paulina Kubiak
came onto
First Avenue,
to her credit,
and went into
to speak with
the UN
Security
officer. She
emerged to
say, You are
banned but
they tell me
there is an
appeals
process, you
are to write
to the
Investigations
Unit and the
Police
Chief.
Inner
City Press
expressed
skepticism,
including in
light of
Fleming's
non-answer,
but asked the
PGA's office
to follow
through.
Kubiak said
she would go
into UNHQ, to
UN Security /
DSS in the
basement, and
get Inner City
Press the
addresses to
appeal
to.
But
she later
wrote to Inner
City Press,
"Hi
Matthew,
I’ve spoken
with a number
of people on
the issue of
your access to
UNHQ, but
unfortunately,
was unable to
get any useful
information.
Best,
Paulina."
Inner
City Press
wrote back, "
Paulina
-
You told me
there is an
appeals
process, and
that you were
doing inside
to DSS in the
basement to
get me the
address that
I, or the
Quinn Emanuel
law firm,
should write
it with the
appeal. So
what is the
address?
Thanks."
But there has
been no
answer, even
as Kubiak held
a questionless
session in the
UN Press
Briefing Room.
Prior to that,
Inner City
Press asked
UNSG Antonio
Guterres'
spokespeople
Stephane
Dujarric and
Farhan Haq,
and the Indian
Mission to the
UN as UNSC
President,
"Immediately
explain both
the basis for
UN Security at
801 1st Ave on
the morning of
Dec 2 tell me
I am "banned"
from entering
the UN despite
confirmed
invitation to
UN PGA Town
Hall, and (2)
the "appeals"
process that
DSS told PGA
Spokesperson
about to,
conveyed to
me. What is
the
"Inspections
Unit" and
"Police Chief"
email address
an appellee is
to write to?
Why did USG
Fleming not
respond to the
July 2021
Quinn Emanuel
letter with
information
about this
appeals
process, if it
exists? How
many people
are on the
UN's "banned"
list? On what
bases? On
deadline." No
answer -
Watch
this site.
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By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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