SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Feb 26 – How corrupt and
undemocratic is today's United Nations?
Well, now that
Antonio Guterres is pushing for a second
five-year term, while banning
the Press for the 969th day for daring to ask
about his finances and failures, he has
collaborators.
The
current President of the General Assembly
Volkan Bozkir, a strongman from Turkey who due
to his bigoted comments even pro-UN New York
City Mayor Bill de Blasio wouldn't meet with,
has the duty of circulating letters from
candidates.
But for
nearly the entirety of February 2021, Bozkir
has refused to circulate the letter of UN
staffer candidate Arora Akanksha.
Bozkir's
spokesman Brendan Varma, who
blocks Inner City Press on Twitter,
dances around what the rules are and won't
answer.
So, as a
test - and to raise the issue of the UN's lack
of content neutral media access rules, lack
of a Freedom of Information Act (fought
for the Free UN Coalition for Access) and lack
of scruples - Inner City Press on the morning
of February 26 submitted a signed letter
and C.V. to the PGA's Office and to
Varma.
Also to
the President of the Security Council for
February, Barbara Woodward of the UK Mission,
along with a formal request for confirmation
of receipt.
By 5 pm on
February 26, nothing. Absolutely corrupt.
Dereliction of duty. But we will not rest.
Watch this site.
February 22, 2021
As UN Guterres
Lusts For 2d Term Abuses Incumbency Amid Silence from PGA
& UKUN
UN GATE, Feb
12 – The moves by Antonio Guterres to try to
get five more years in the UN Mansion on
Sutton Place by further selling out human
rights, banning the Press which asks questions
about genocide in Cameroon, peacekeepers'
rapes and Chinese bribes at the UN continue.
But in
his lust for an unmerited second term as UNSG,
Guterres on February 5 got fellow censor UK PR
Barbara Woodward and Turkish strongman PGA
Volkan Bozkir to issue a letter kicking off
what he hopes to be a rigged process. Woodward
even gushed
about openness, while her UK Mission refuses
to answer written questions from Inner City
Press, including about Guterres' shameful
cover up of sexual abuse by his crony Fabrizio
Hochschild.
On
February 8, a first of what should be many
challengers, leading over the hill corrupt-o
Guterres to withdraw. First out the box: Arora
Akanksha. She's worked at the UNFPA, so she
should know just how low Guterres has taken
the UN system.
Inner
City Press first reported her campaign on
February 8, and on the morning of February 9
asked Guterres and his spokespeople Melissa
Fleming and Stephane Dujarric, "What are SG
Guterres' response to the candidacy for SG of
Arora Akanksha, who says "not enough has been
done other than reshuffling of the bureaucracy
and recycling ineffective leaders with new
titles and nameplates. What ails the UN
is a failure of leadership"?
No answer at
all - but two days later on February 11
Dujarric told his pro-Guterres insiders,
"António Guterres is a candidate for the
selection process. It's not for him to comment
on other people who may want to come forward.
This is a process run by Member States... I
speak for the incumbent candidate."
Yeah -
who is misusing incumbency to try to extend
his corrupt reign, for example here.
Here's
video.
Inner City Press
asked not only Guterres and his spokespeople
about it, but also PGA Zolkan Bozkir and his
spokesman Brendan Varma, and UNSC President
Barbara Woodward, who promised "openness."
Nothing, no answer - collusion.
February
15, 2021
As UN Guterres
Lusts For 2d Term Abuses Incumbency Amid Silence from PGA
& UKUN
UN GATE, Feb
12 – The moves by Antonio Guterres to try to
get five more years in the UN Mansion on
Sutton Place by further selling out human
rights, banning the Press which asks questions
about genocide in Cameroon, peacekeepers'
rapes and Chinese bribes at the UN continue.
But in
his lust for an unmerited second term as UNSG,
Guterres on February 5 got fellow censor UK PR
Barbara Woodward and Turkish strongman PGA
Volkan Bozkir to issue a letter kicking off
what he hopes to be a rigged process. Woodward
even gushed
about openness, while her UK Mission refuses
to answer written questions from Inner City
Press, including about Guterres' shameful
cover up of sexual abuse by his crony Fabrizio
Hochschild.
On
February 8, a first of what should be many
challengers, leading over the hill corrupt-o
Guterres to withdraw. First out the box: Arora
Akanksha. She's worked at the UNFPA, so she
should know just how low Guterres has taken
the UN system.
Inner
City Press first reported her campaign on
February 8, and on the morning of February 9
asked Guterres and his spokespeople Melissa
Fleming and Stephane Dujarric, "What are SG
Guterres' response to the candidacy for SG of
Arora Akanksha, who says "not enough has been
done other than reshuffling of the bureaucracy
and recycling ineffective leaders with new
titles and nameplates. What ails the UN
is a failure of leadership"?
No answer at
all - but two days later on February 11
Dujarric told his pro-Guterres insiders,
"António Guterres is a candidate for the
selection process. It's not for him to comment
on other people who may want to come forward.
This is a process run by Member States... I
speak for the incumbent candidate."
Yeah - who
is misusing incumbency to try to extend his
corrupt reign, for example here.
Here's
video.
February
8, 2021
UNDT Told
Inner City Press To Destroy Evidence of UN Sex Abuse Now
Padula Name Disappears Under Guterres
UN GATE, Feb 4
– How corrupt and unaccountable is today's
United Nations?
Well, in
November 2020 Inner City Press went to attend
and report on a UN Dispute Tribunal proceeding
about a case of sexual harassment in the UN, a
proceeding which was announced as open to the
public, as US court cases are.
But when
Inner City Press signed in and gave its name,
it was excluded. Later, when it obtained and
published evidenc presented in the case, a UN
Dispute Tribunal judge ordered it to destroy
the evidence or be banned from all future
proceedings.
This
while UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
falsely claims to have zero tolerance for
sexual harassment and abuse, while himself
banning Inner City Press from UN briefings now
for 948 days.
Now in
the case Inner City Press was ordered to
destroy evidence of who-done-it, even the UNDT
has found Padula guilty - but has insisted
that he be anonymized, that is, covered up
for. The shameful order is here,
and recites for example that the person -
Padula - covered up for
.“grabbed
[AA’s] face, held her closely, leaned forward
and attempted to kiss her”; b. “when [AA]
resisted [the Applicant] kissing her, [he]
forced [AA’s] head down and kissed her on the
forehead”; c. “grabbed [BB’s] face, held
her closely, leaned forward and attempted to
kiss her”; d. “tried to move physically close
to [AA] and [BB] while dancing, despite their
attempts to keep [him] at a distance”; e.
“attempted to grab [CC’s] face; when she
blocked her face with her hands, [the
Applicant] grabbed her hands and tried to pull
them apart; when she resisted, [he] fell on
her forcefully”; and f. “took and pulled
[CC’s] hands to try to get her to dance,
despite her resistance”.
But in
Guterres' UN they do not want the public to
know who did this - and the Press which
exclusively published and name and evidence is
banned and its written questions not answered.
On the morning of February 4, 12 hours before
publishing this when no answer was received
from Guterres, Dujarric, Fleming, Amina J.
Mohammed et al., Inner City Press in writing
asked this: "what are SG Guterres comments and
more importantly action on the UN Dispute
Tribunal on Feb 3 confirming sexual charges
against Padula - while having told Inner City
Press to destroy all evidence or remain
bannned, and maintaining Padula's name sealed,
confirming the cover-up culture under
Guterres?"
The UN
claims it has to protect the identity of
Padula (and will NOT report him to NYPD for
any criminal offense) because they have to
protect the identity of the VICTIMS - it's
like Guterres' rationale for covering up
genocide and mass killing, for example in
Cameroon.
Inner
City Press is even banned from submitting
questions by WebEx, on which the International
Monetary Fund for example answers its
questions, as it did on February 4 about the
Burma coupl. The only difference is Guterres
and his corruption.
On
December 21 Inner City Press
filed a formal appeal with the
UN Appeals Tribunal, full
filing here
on DocumentCloud.
February
1, 2021
UNSG Guterres
Lies On Hochschild Of Whom He Knew in 2019
from Banned Inner City Press
UN
GATE, Jan 28
– How corrupt and
hypocritical is
the United Nations of Secretary
General Antonio Guterres? He
covered up for two years on seuxal
harassment by his friend Fabrizio Hochschild, as
banned Inner City
Press asked
him about it in
writing. Then on
January 28 Guterres
lied and said he'd
only found
out days before.
Video here.
This
lie came in a
Press-less
press
conference.
State media of
Turkey, Qatar, as
well as Reuters
and the NYT,
helped
Guterres by
not asking
about the
belated
suspension of
Hochschild. But
when it was
asked as the
penultimate question,
before
Guterres went
to jump the
vaccination line in The
Bronx,
Guterres
outright lied as
to when he
knew. He also
expressed
nothing for the
victims, only
a hope for
due process
for his
crony.
We'll have
more on this.
So
much so that while Guterres claims
zero tolerance and to be a
feminist, he twice rewarded and
covered up sexual
misconduct in his own office. Inner
City Press before May
2019 reported
the #MeToo
abuses of Fabrizio
Hochschild, and
asked Guterres in
writing about
them, with no
answer. It
published audio
leaked to it; its
exclusive was
picked up here
for example.
Now on
January 28, this:
"UN
spokesperson
Stéphane
Dujarric said
that the head
of the
Organization,
Antonio
Guterres, took
" very
seriously any
allegation of
harassment,
abuse of
power,
discrimination
or sexual
harassment ”.
After "
allegations of
possible
prohibited
conduct
against
Fabrizio
Hochschild
were brought
to his
attention ", a
suspension of
functions was
decided during
an internal
investigation.
Once achieved,
" the
secretary
general will
act quickly
and take
appropriate
action on the
basis of the
findings, "
added the
spokesperson."
But
AFP sources it
to a pro-Guterres
in-house
publication
which said
Guterres gets
a "B" from
feminists.
What a joke -
it is Guterres
who
should be ousted,
for censorship
to cover up
rapes, by Karim
Elkorany (UN
staff in Iraq)
and Peacekeepers
in DRC and
CAR. We'll
have more on this.
January
25, 2021
UNSG Guterres
Rewards Sexual Harassment As Gives Hochschild
Tech Post Staff Tell Inner City Press
UN
GATE, Jan 22
– How corrupt and
hypocritical is
the United Nations of Secretary
General Antonio Guterres? So
much so that while Guterres claims
zero tolerance and to be a
feminist, now he has again
rewarded
and covered up sexual
misconduct in his own office. In
a musical chairs personnel move
on April 18, 2019, a day after
he continued his now
934 day censorship
of the Press, Guterres named as his new
Assistant
Secretary-General for
Strategic Coordination
one Volker
Türk, who when
Inner City Press asked him about refugees
chased by Paul Biya's
Cameroon army into
Nigeria seemed not
to know about it.
Guterres, as we
have reported, not
only took a
golden statue
from Biya, but
went
silent on the
killings since Cameroon
was
chair of the
UN Budget
Committee. But
it's worse:
Turk took
the position
from Fabrizio
Hochschild
Drummond of
Chile "who was
appointed as
Special
Adviser of the
Secretary-General
on the
Preparations
for the
Commemoration
of the United
Nations’ 75th
Anniversary."
This promotion
was,
ghoulishly,
Guterres rewarding
what multiple
staff say was
Hochschild's
relationship
with another
junior staff
member.
Now on
January 22
with the
failed 75th anniversary
complete with
the censorship
of critical
views, now
Guterres is
recycling
this abuser as his
chief of technology,
while still
refusing
all questions
from Inner
City Press -
which was
answered on
Jan 22 by Andrew
Yang, and
by the IMF and
others.
Guterres and
those around
him are
corrupt.
One of
the staff
members tells
Inner City
Press it in these words: "his
promotion to
USG was
because the SG
wanted him out
of his office
after he was
caught having
an affair with
a junior staff
member. In
terms of power
play this is a
reward for
sexual
harassment."
Talk about MeToo -
the faux
feminist
Guterres covers up
and rewards
such behavior.
And later on
April 18 Ms.
Nahla Valji,
Senior Gender
Adviser,
Executive
Office of the
Secretary-General, was bragging
about Guterres
and feminism. What
hypocrisy.
We'll have
more on this -
while Guterres
and his
spokespeople refuse
to answer any
of Inner City
Press' written
questions, we
still have
sources, many
sources.
In
the midst of Inner City Press'
questioning in 2018 about
Guterres' links to now convicted UN
bribery Patrick Ho's China Energy
Fund Committee and Guterres'
failures on Cameroon
and elsewhere, his UN Security twice
roughed up Inner City Press on June
22 and July
3, 2018.
January
18, 2021
UK Ambassador Letter Citing Inner City Press Scoops
Stonewalled By UNESCO Like Guterres
UN GATE, Jan
14 – From
the corrupt UN
of Antonio
Guterres, who
is now running
for a second
mandate, the
whole UN
system has
been totally
corrupted,
especially
UNESCO. The
Paris based UN
agency is in
turmoil after
the exposure
of a number of
administrative
transgressions
by Inner City
Press, which
articles led
to internal
investigations.
Yet,
advocating for
governing
control
measures by
member states
yields
results, as
revealed in
the letter by
the ambassador
of the UK to
UNESCO,
Matthew Lodge,
who
denunciated
the lack of
transparency
and financial
accountability
in the
administration
of the French
DG Audrey
Azoulay. This
letter was
motivated by
the article of
Inner City
Press about
the
misappropriation
of public
funds in large
proportions
(see copy of
the UK
Ambassador’s
letter here).
In his letter,
the UK
ambassador
pointed out
that the
embezzlement
allegations
that had been
rejected at
the outset
with
condescension
by Nicholas
Jeffreys
ADG/ADM and
Nikolas
Kacyanides
Dir/Cabinet,
were factual
information
that and “the
Inner City
Press
allegations of
financial
impropriety
and breach of
rules” proved
to be “a
confirmed
financial
fraud”. This
is the first
time when an
influent
member state
of UNESCO, and
a member of
the Security
Council P5, is
confirming in
writing the
veracity of
the
arraignments
by Inner City
Press. From
the UN? No
answer.
January
11, 2021
As UNSC Prez Tunisia Bans Cameroon Qs For Guterres
But Will 5 New Members Do Better?
UN GATE, Jan
4 – In the United Nations from which SG
Antonio Guterres has banned Inner City Press
916 days for asking about his complicity in
the killing of civilians in Cameroon,
poisoning them in Haiti with cholera and COVID
in South Sudan, and their mass imprisonment by
China in Xinjiang, on January 4 Inner City
Press wrote to the Mission of Tunisia, as
incoming UN Security Council president, with
questions including about Ethiopia, Western
Sahara, Haiti, Yemen and Cameroon.
Inner
City Press specifically asked to be provided
the WebEx codes to be able to ask its
questions. No answer.
But
three hours later when Tunisia's Ambassador
Tarek Labed took questions, his spokesperson
took them in groups of four -- without protest
from the increasingly pathetic UNCA UN press
corpse -- allowing Labed to evade even the
questions that were asked.
No one allowed
in asked about Cameroon, just the way Guterres
wants it. The answer is clearly no. This is
shameful. But will the five incoming UNSC
members - India, Ireland, Mexico, Kenya and
Norway - do their jobs of openness to the
Press and public? We will be asking.
For now
Inner City Press, which will report all month
about the UNSC with or seemingly without any
Tunisia or Labed access, posted the Program of
Work here
and notes for example "Wester Africa" - that
would / should include Cameroon - on January
11, Yemen on January 14, League of Arab States
on January 18, Syria on January 20, Colombia
on January 21, and January 26 on the Middle
East. Labed said two meetings will be in
person - this as Guterres violated COVID
quarantine rules. Today's UN is corrupt.
Inner City Press streamed some of the
Press-less presser, here.
Among those "given the floor" by
Tunisia, while banning Inner City Press, were
state media from Pakistan, a retiree of a
decade, and others.
When Guterres'
spokes- / hatchetman Stephane Dujarric holds
his noon briefings this month while refusing
all questions from Inner City Press despite an
on camera promise.
And Tunisia and Labed? We'll report.
Watch this site.
January 4, 2021 UNSG
Antonio
Guterres Flew
to Lisbon To
Politicize
Religious
Order In Bid
For 2d Term
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Jan 1 – Antonio Guterres'
four years as UN Secretary General have
consisted of diplomatic failures,
cover-ups
of UN sexual abuse and UN bribers, including
his own connections
with convicted briber CEFC China Energy, and banning
of the Press that asked.
Now at New
Years 2021, violating what the public is told
to do with the UN's WHO and by Joe
Biden, among others, Guterres has
traveled on vacation to Portugal (and, it's
been said, then to the UK).
There
in Portugal, a craven religious order has
debased itself by calling him a man of peace
while not doing basic research into Guterres
cover up of child rape - sadly, it's birds of
a feather: "The custodian of the Sacred
Convent of Assisi announced that the 'Lamp of
Peace of San Francisco”, granted annually,
will be given in 2021 to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations, António Guterres.
'The motivation that led us to this
recognition is his tireless work of political
mediation in the complexity of our world that
is struggling with so many conflicts, wars,
injustices and degradation of human beings and
creation; a deep commitment to a dialogical
and cordial style, a style of fraternal
humanism, as we, the friars of the Sacred
Convent, call it ”, explained Fr. Marco
Moroni, speaking of the Portuguese
official. António Guterres is praised
for his “political activity lived as a
vocation at the service of the common good."
Beyond
the ghoulish praise by a Catholic group of a
man whose UN Partnerships representative Amir
Dossal was on the board of Ghislaine Maxwell's
Terramar Project, and won't answer the Press
on that or UN child rapes, instead roughed it
up and banned, why are they involved in
politics at all? Who oversees them?
Why did
Guterres thumb his nose as his own
organization's directives and travel to
Portugal?
Was it meet up
with his son Pedro, whose African
business deals like a meeting with
Rwanda Paul Kagame Guterres has refused to
disclose or explain, when banned
Inner City Press asked?
Well, with
Guterres in Lisbon, that city's and his organ
of choice Expresso has begun Guterres'
campaign for an entirely unmerited second term
as SG, with Helder Gomes writing (or reciting,
dictated by Guterres) that "the former
Portuguese prime minister will fulfill the
next 12 months with the promised US return to
multilateralism. For now, Guterres maintains
the taboo, but has already indicated that he
still has a lot to do."
More bribes to
take? More civilians to sell out, as he has
the Anglophones of Cameroon?
If the
UN is to retain or even regain any of its
credibility, there can be no second term. Just
say no to Guterres. Song
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December 28, 2020
Antonio
Guterres Flew
to Lisbon To
Launch
Campaign for
2d Term In
Expresso Just
Say No
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Dec 26 – Antonio Guterres'
four years as UN Secretary General have
consisted of diplomatic failures,
cover-ups
of UN sexual abuse and UN bribers, including
his own connections
with convicted briber CEFC China Energy, and banning
of the Press that asked.
Now for
Christmas 2020, violating what the public is
told to do with the UN's WHO and by Joe
Biden, among others, Guterres has
traveled on vacation to Portugal (and, it's
been said, then to the UK). He is a
hypocrite.
Why did
Guterres thumb his nose as his own
organization's directives and travel to
Portugal?
Was it meet up
with his son Pedro, whose African
business deals like a meeting with
Rwanda Paul Kagame Guterres has refused to
disclose or explain, when banned
Inner City Press asked?
Well, with
Guterres in Lisbon, that city's and his organ
of choice Expresso has begun Guterres'
campaign for an entirely unmerited second term
as SG, with Helder Gomes writing (or reciting,
dictated by Guterres) that "the former
Portuguese prime minister will fulfill the
next 12 months with the promised US return to
multilateralism. For now, Guterres maintains
the taboo, but has already indicated that he
still has a lot to do."
More bribes to
take? More civilians to sell out, as he has
the Anglophones of Cameroon?
If the
UN is to retain or even regain any of its
credibility, there can be no second term. Just
say no to Guterres. Song
I here. Watch this site.
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21, 2020
UN
Guterres Cries
Poor Flying to
Germany UK and
Lisbon Amid
COVID and
Censorship
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Dec 15 – How corrupt is today's
United Nations?
Well, just as
New York prepares to go into another COVID-19
lockdown, its Secretary General prepares to
fly off to Germany and the presumably to his
real home in Portugal, before slipping back
into New York evade quarantine rules that
applies to others.
This while
Guterres cries poor, in a letter to staff that
Inner City Press now exclusively publishes in
full:
"Saturday, 12
December 2020 Dear Colleagues, I am
writing to update you on the ways in which we
are managing the continuing liquidity
challenges facing the United Nations. My
senior team and I have been working closely
with Member States to find a systemic solution
to the recurring cash crisis, especially for
our regular budget operations. The
ultimate responsibility for our financial
health lies with Member States. Most
have fulfilled their Charter obligations and
paid in full, some on time and some even in
advance. Many have responded positively
to my appeals during the year to accelerate
their contributions. With your
help, we have been working hard to deal with a
problem that is greater this year than
compared to 2019. We started 2020 with
the highest level of arrears in recent history
– $711 million – eroding our already meagre
reserves. By February, there were
already alarming signs of further deficits and
as a result, we had to institute additional
cash conservation measures to ensure that we
would be able to pay the salaries and
entitlements of our staff on time and settle
our legal obligations to vendors. The
impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have created
even further difficulties, and we are now over
$600 million short of our target for the
year. However, notwithstanding these
shortfalls, we have continued to prioritize
salaries every month and have advanced
payments to provide staff with more
predictability during the crisis. This
cautious approach to spending, especially in
controlling hiring, has proven prudent.
Without these measures, our operations would
have been disrupted and we would not have been
able to meet payrolls or fulfil our
obligations. However, outstanding
contributions are now nearly $1,194 million,
and we have depleted the liquidity reserves
for the regular budget and now have to borrow
from the accounts of closed peacekeeping
operations in order to meet obligations for
December. I have made every effort
to protect staff from this crisis, and I will
continue to do so. As personnel costs
constitute the bulk of the regular budget, as
well as being the most difficult to adjust
quickly in response to cash shortages, hiring
judiciously has been critical to ensuring
liquidity for salaries. But this has a
terrible knock-on effect: high vacancies put
more pressure on existing staff, which is
neither desirable nor sustainable. I
have urged managers to be sensitive and
creative in addressing this situation, and I
have also emphasized to Member States that
this persisting liquidity crisis is
undermining our work. I continue to
implore Member States to contain the erosion
of our capacity to deliver while working with
them to find a sustainable solution that
simultaneously supports staff and enables the
United Nations to sustain its
operations. I want to assure
you that we are in this
together. Thank you for your
service during these challenging times. Yours
sincerely, António Guterres"
Now UK
Permanent Representative Barbara Woodward has
tweeted, "My Prime Minister is looking forward
to welcoming you to London in January to mark
#UN75." So,
"does @AntonioGuterres leaving NY
for Germany tomorrow Dec 16, as NYC moves to
COVID Pause of Lockdown, and this "London in
January" mean that he'll be spending public
money in Lisbon from mid Dec into January,
amid the pandemic? When would he come back to
UNHQ?" This has been asked publicly - no
answer.
Nor to this,
emailed to Guterres, his deputy Amina J.
Mohammed, chief of staff Viotti and
spokespeople: " How can it be that,
given the impending lockdown for COVID in NY,
and the situation in Germany, that SG Guterres
is flying there, instead of speaking by Zoom?
When is SG Guterres scheduled to return to NY?
Will he be going to Lisbon? Is that, as some
surmise, the goal of the ill-considered / bad
example trip?"
During
the pandemic, Guterres has already sneaked off
to Portugal twice. He has allowed his UN
Security to keep their gym open when all other
gyms in NYC have been closed. When banned
Inner City Press asked in writing about this,
Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and
Melissa Fleming have refused to answer. It is
impunity. He should not return.
From the
December 14 UN transcript: Dujarric: I
have a trip announcement for you. The
Secretary-General will travel on Wednesday to
Berlin, where he will address the German
Parliament on Friday morning. While in Berlin,
he will also meet with Chancellor Angela
Merkel, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.
Q: it's his
first personal trip since March; right?
Dujarric: It
is his first official trip. As you may have
recalled, he went home twice to see his
family.
Question:
Yeah. So the question is, why is it so
important to go to Germany, in particular
taking into account the current strict COVID
measures in Germany right now... and if he's
going to quarantine after his arrival back to
New
York?
Dujarric: A
couple of things. We may have more travel to
announce. I will tell you that the way
we're... travel is organised, safety is first
and foremost. The Secretary‑General will be
tested before leaving, as will his
delegation.
This was a very important invitation on
behalf... by the German Government. It's not
every day that a Secretary‑General is invited
to address the Bundestag. So, we've accepted
the
invitation.
The Secretary‑General will, of course, follow
all regulations pertinent to the city and
state of New York upon return when he is in
New York."
And when would that be? Is this just a pretext
to spend public money to go to Lisbon, where
Guterres took money from Gulbenkian which
tried to sell its oil company to UN briber
CEFC China Energy?
Inner City Press
and its questions have been banned from the UN
for 895 days by this corrupt Guterres. He should
not return. December
14, 2020
UN
Guterres
Covers Up
Uruguay Child
Rape in DRC As
Bans Inner
City Press
891st Day
UN
GATE, Dec 10 -- Stephane Dujarric,
the lead spokesman of UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres, 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.
On
October 26,
while maskless
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric
continues to
lie about
sexual abuse,
the UN data
dumped
additional
outrageous
sexual abuses,
Gabon and Togo
in the Central
African
Republic, this
very year.
Inner City
Press
immediately in
writing asked:
"On UN sexual
exploitation
and abuse -
alleged - this
is a request
that you
immediately
provide the
"if asked"
information
about the
caseso f
child rape and
sexual
exploitation
by UN
"peacekeepers"
from Uruguay,
Ethiopia,
Senegal and
Benin and
again
Cameroon, in
DRC and
Central
African
Republic just
cursorily data
dumped onto
the UN website
today December
10 (Human
Rights Day and
that you
immediately
provide the
"granular"
information
that was
promised today
at noon to
correspondents
who barely ask
or publish
about this
topic. What is
being done for
the victims?
Also, again,
what is
Guterres'
answer, which
you refused to
provide after
banned Inner
City Press
asked you and
others in
writing on the
morning of
August 19 that
you
"immediately
provide all
if-asked and
additional
information
about the new
allegation of
SEA announced
of child rape
by a
Cameroonian
"peacekeeper"
in DR Congo,
and why this
has been left
so long
UNanswered -
and also why
previously
published
charges are no
longer in the
data to which
UN
Peacekeeping
Conduct and
Discipline
points,
including what
if being done
for these
victims and
any steps
taken to avoid
this constant
repetition of
abuse despite
the SG's
ostensible
commitments.
Again, are new
allegations
being buried
elsewhere on
the data page?
Inner City
Press is
asking in
writing
because banned
from the noon
briefings and
any follow up
questions, now
for more than
a year. On
August 24
Inner City
Press
re-applied for
admission to
cover the UNGA
high level
week; on
August 30 it
was summarily
rejected, with
no or only
Kafka-esque
reasoning.
Today, as
before none of
Inner City
Press' written
questions,
including on
Cameroon, have
been answered.
This is a
request that
you
immediately
confirm
receipt of
these
questions and
requests. "
No
answer, and no
one let into
the noon
briefing -
including
several state
media
including VOA
and a
handpicked
climate
question from
Sidney - asked
about the
rapes.
December
7, 2020
Banning
Press UNSC
Prez South
Africa Praised
Guterres For
Helping Paul
Biya in
Cameroon
UN GATE, Dec
2 – In the United Nations from which SG
Antonio Guterres has banned Inner City Press
883 days for asking about his complicity in
the killing of civilians in Cameroon,
poisoning them in Haiti with cholera and COVID
in South Sudan, and their mass imprisonment by
China in Xinjiang, on November 30 Inner City
Press wrote to the Mission of South Africa, as
incoming UN Security Council president, with
questions including about Western Sahara,
Haiti, Yemen and Cameroon.
Inner
City Press specifically asked to be provided
the WebEx codes to be able to ask its
questions. No answer.
But when
South Africa's self-described bureaucrat Jerry
Matjila took questions, his spokesman took
them in groups of three -- without protest
from the increasingly pathetic UNCA UN press
corpse -- allowing Matjila to evade even the
questions that were asked.
No one allowed
in asked about Cameroon, just the way Guterres
wants it.
And on December 2 to a group of insider NGOs
Matjila,
low-talking, on Cameroon praised the
failed work of Antonio Guterres, claimed that
ECOWAS or ECCAS is keeping an "eagle eye" on
Cameroon and that the UN Security Council is
acting appropriately on it. Video here,
including the lines "the Secretary General in
his wisdom is taking the responsibility to
help [inaudible] Paul Biya." He also claimed
there are agreements on language and
region(s).
No one
called him on it. UN world, in the era of
Guterres, is more and more decrepit.
Would
South Africa's former Ambassador Kumalo, no
bureaucrat at all, have colluded in this
Secretary General's censorship of Press? The
answer is clearly no. This is shameful.
This
too: during Matjila's "press" conference, the
Program of Work was not even on the website of
the UNSC. Still Inner City Press, which will
report all month about the UNSC with or
seemingly without any Matjila or South African
bureaucracy access, notes for example "Central
Africa" - that would / should be Cameroon - on
December 9, DRC on Dec 7, Yemen on Dec 14,
South Sudan Dec 15, Afghanistan Dec 17, and
Syria Dec 21.
On
Western Sahara, Matjila cravenly praised
Guterres' supposed effort on naming a UN
envoy, on which Guterres has failed for more
than a year. This President is a letdown on
Western Sahara.
Inner City Press live tweeted the Press-less
presser, here,
and streamed some, here.
When Guterres'
spokes- / hatchetman Stephane Dujarric holds
his noon briefings this month while refusing
all questions from Inner City Press despite an
on camera promise.
And South Africa and "bureaucrat" Matjila?
We'll report.
Watch this site.
November
30, 2020
In UN
Belief Blinken
and Thomas
Greenfield
Would
Collaborate As
Censors for
Corruption
UN GATE /
SDNY, Nov 23 - The United Nations, its
unaccountable senior leadership and
sychophantic press corps all seem pleased by
the nomination
of perceived supporters to represent the US
from January 20 on.
Witness the
canned Q&A in the UN noon briefing of
November 23, which again banned Inner City
Press - and its questions about UN corruption
and sexual abuse, Cameroon,
Honduras
and other UN failures, here.
Inner City
Press before corrupt UNSG Antonio Guterres had
it thrown
out without due process or appeal
covered not only the UN and its "Peacekeeping"
missions in Haiti and elsewhere, but also
Antony Blinken (here,
meeting Prince Zeid) and Linda
Thomas-Greenfield (here,
after a trip to Somalia; Inner City Press
covered the UN Security Council trip to
Djibouti).
So would
it be the case that Blinken and
Thomas-Greenfield would cast a blind eye at UN
censorship
and lack of
accountability, from Cameroon to the banning of
the Press that asks? Watch this site.November
23, 2020
Complicit
In Saudi Press
Murder UN
Guterres Bans
Press As State
Media
Obsequious On
G20
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Nov 20 – The G-20
meeting by Saudi Arabia's royals, killers of
journalist like Jamal Khashhogi, is being used
by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to
promote himself, for example in a scam
November 20 press conference with state media,
video here.
After
Guterres' distribution of a redacted copy of
his pre-summit letter, this was a six question
briefing Guterres banned critical Inner City
Press from. The questions included Turkish
state media asking for praise of the Turkish
Republic of Northern Cyprus, South African
state media coyly asking for criticism of
Trump and getting only evasion (Guterres will
take money from anyone); Qatar's Al Jazeera
asking for a Qatar sound byte, useless ANSA
lobbying a softball about "COVAX" and Guterres
blathering about mis-information, meaning any
criticism of him.
Before,
these stage directions from the UN
Correspondents Association, with Xinhua and
Saudi funded media on the board:
"Dear
colleagues, The Secretary-General will
hold a press briefing tomorrow, Friday,
November 20th at 12:30 PM in the Press
Briefing Room S-237 with a limited amount of
journalists present with distancing
restrictions and the rest will continue to
participate virtually on the Webex
platform. Only a maximum of 10 UN
correspondents with 6 resident correspondents,
1 non-resident correspondents [sic], and 3
photographers can be safely accommodated.
Thank you for your attention and
cooperation. Valeria Robecco President,
United Nations Correspondents Association."
Inner City
Press on the morning of November 20 asked
Guterres, spokesman Stephane Dujarric, Melissa
Fleming and others 100+ questions including,
on this, "As to SG Guterres's November 20
press conference, (1) how it is legitimate to
outsource access to the UN Correspondents
Association, which self-servingly decided six
"resident correspondents" (some of whom
publish nothing), 1 "non resident
correspondents" [sic] and three photographers
-- does that include or not include the
publicly-paid UN Photo staff, or those who
purport to both be UN Photo and resident
correspondents? On what basis is Inner City
Press, which has questions, banned even from
posing question(s) by WebEx? How is this not
just censorship?"
"Everyone accessing UN premises in New York
confirms that they have not
had
- Any
COVID-19 symptoms in the past 14 days
- A
positive COVID-19 test in the past 14
days
- Close
contact with a confirmed or suspected COVID-19
case in the past 14 days."
What a
scam - Guterres evaded quarantine, and his
spokesman Stephane Dujarric briefs maskless
daily, give feet above Al Jazeera's Bays who
takes off his mask. The UN Censorship Alliance
- with Saudi Arabia. Inner City Press will
have more on this - watch this site.
November
16, 2020
After
UN Beer Party
Andrea Padula
Assaulted 3
Women Here Is
Transcript UN
Wants
Destroyed
In Other
Media e.g. Somalia,
Ghana,
Azerbaijan,
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