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March 18, 2024

UN Fails Amid Resignation of Henry of Haiti Where UN Took Cholera Japan UNSC Useless

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, March 11 – Japan gets the UN Security Council presidency on March 1, 2024 - while Inner City Press is still banned from the UN, despite its June 19 application.

Now in just another failure of the UN in March, Ariel Henry of Haiti has resigned, without the UN having confirmed or had any impact, after bringing cholera to Haiti and killing 10,000 plus.

On February 29, Inner City Press wrote to the Japanese Mission: This is a timely request that you allow Inner City Press to enter and cover, and/or provide the WebEx  pass code(s) to access Japan's UNSC Presidency press briefing by your Ambassador Yamazaki on March 1, 2024.

I have questions to ask on what you will do this month about Gaza, UNRWA and the coups in Gabon and Niger, Japan, North Korea and the conflicts in Sudan, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Yemen and Libya, and the revelations of El Pollo now in SDNY - and on ongoing cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers on many of which Inner City Press first reported

By day's end, no answer from the Japan mission. Only this: "I am seconded to UNDP now. I will be checking emails intermittently, but may delay in response, and please send at below address for any urgent matters.  Thank you.  Shinobu Yamaguchi." No answer from below address - or Blue Book address.

 Watch this site.

 Inner City Press on June 19 applied to the UN for access, as it gives 100s, to cover the UNGA week. Inner City Press has a NYC Press Pass and writes about the UN. From Japan and its UN Mission, nothing.

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March 11, 2024

New Book on Guilty Verdicts of JOH Honduras Ex President Narco Drama by Inner City Press, Still Asks UN about Guterres Backing up JOH's 2d Stolen Election

by Matthew Russell Lee, Substack

LITERARY COURTHOUSE, March 8 – In the closing arguments on March 6, AUSA Tarlow said that narco trafficking had grown under JOH. On March 7, out of the hearing of the jury and for then the Press, JOH's lawyer Stabile said he'd heard different overnight.

  From who?

  The defendant's wife he said.

  Was this just a play for a mistrial?

Judge Castel concluded it was, and denied Stabile's motion, Order on Patreon here.

Later on March 8, the verdict, here- now a book

1:18 pm Eastern - Inner City Press heard through sources that there's a verdict in US v. JOH

Now 1:26 pm- Judge Castel: Please take the verdict. Clerk: Count 1, Has the government proven 5 or more kilos: Foreman: Yes 

Clerk: Count 2, does it involve machine guns? Foreman: Yes. Clerk: Count 3, how do you find? Foreman: Guilty [on all three] - and destructive device. [JOH GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS CULPABLE DE TODOS LOS CARGOS

And now, "Narco Drama: The trial of Honduras' JOH," here. Some: The former president of Honduras demanded a new lawyer. His first one, he said he could no longer pay. Anyway the man was getting sick, and had been picked in the first instance by a rabbi who was reporting to the Drug Enforcement Agency. So Juan Orlando Hernandez spoke to the judge, first in open court, then obscured by white noise at the sidebar. Kurt Wheelock knew he had to write

   Inner City Press has repeatedly asked the UN - from Secretary General Antonio Guterres, through Melissa Fleming to Stephane Dujarric - to state the outcome of Guterres' three person pane sent to Honduras after JOH stole his second election. No answer at all, and Inner City Press remains banned. Today's UN is totally corrupt.

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March 4, 2024

Japan Takes Over UNSC For March No Answer on Gaza or North Korea Despite Press Questions

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Feb 29 – Japan gets the UN Security Council presidency on March 1, 2024 - while Inner City Press is still banned from the UN, despite its June 19 application.

On February 29, Inner City Press wrote to the Japanese Mission: This is a timely request that you allow Inner City Press to enter and cover, and/or provide the WebEx  pass code(s) to access Japan's UNSC Presidency press briefing by your Ambassador Yamazaki on March 1, 2024.

I have questions to ask on what you will do this month about Gaza, UNRWA and the coups in Gabon and Niger, Japan, North Korea and the conflicts in Sudan, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Yemen and Libya, and the revelations of El Pollo now in SDNY - and on ongoing cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers on many of which Inner City Press first reported

Please note that Inner City Press and I participate in the WebEx briefings of, for example, the IMF: March 31, 2022 and since with new IMF spokesperson Sept 28, 2023: MS. KOZACK:  Matthew Lee, let's start with you. Sure. QUESTIONER: Thanks a lot. Matthew Lee, Inner Press. Thanks for taking the question. I have two coups and crypto, but I'll go in different order... I saw the program with Burkina Faso, and so I'm just wondering what's the status of the IMF's discussions with and programs with other coup governments like in Niger, Mali and now Gabon and Guinea.

By day's end, no answer from the Japan mission. Only this: "I am seconded to UNDP now. I will be checking emails intermittently, but may delay in response, and please send at below address for any urgent matters.  Thank you.  Shinobu Yamaguchi." No answer from below address - or Blue Book address.

 Watch this site.

 Inner City Press on June 19 applied to the UN for access, as it gives 100s, to cover the UNGA week. Inner City Press has a NYC Press Pass and writes about the UN.

February 26, 2024

As UN Guterres Covers Terror Role of UNRWA He Bans Inner City Press Which Exposes It

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Feb 22 – For months Inner City Press has asked the UN and its media people, including Stephane Dujarric and News and Media chief Ian Phillips, about evidence that UNRWA workers took part in the October 7 attacks. No answers at all - censorship.

  A year ago, Inner City Press reported the corruption in UNRWA, by name:

"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, so:


 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. 

 So who didn't know about the tunnels? We'll have more in this series.

Does the UN corrupt everyone that goes to work for it?

Given the inflated salaries it pays its officials, the UN can collect and try to buttress its credibility with for example name-brand journalists. But what freedoms do they give up, and how low do they go?  

In 2023 the UN hired Ian Phillips, once the Associated Press' head of (get this) journalist safety. His LinkedIn profile, after moving to the UN, states that his "role includes advisory and policy work, with particular focus on press freedom."  

So Inner City Press, having been roughed up by UN Security and then banned from entering or getting even its written questions asked, last week wrote to Ian Phillips at the UN - and through his LinkedIn profile:

Hello Mr. Phillips. I am asking you to look into this and ensure that the UN Media and Accreditation Unit fairly process, and rule on, my pending application for (re) accreditation.   Two separate law firms have written the UN pro bono on my behalf, without answer." 

   No answer at all.

In the past weeks, we've sent our daily press questions to Mr. Phillips as well, since he's the head of the UN's "News and Media Division." Questions about Gaza and the Secretary General's finances. And no answers at all.  

 So again:  Does the UN corrupt everyone that goes to work for it? We will continue to report on this.


February 19, 2024

Amid Gaza Guterres Partied with China State Media Lowest Turnout as UNCA Blocks Press

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Feb 9 – In the midst of the war in Gaza, with the UN failing as on Ukraine, the tragic corruptions was mirrored in farce at the UN Correspondents Association garish ball on December 15.

They charged their members, including Iran and China state media, $150 - and much more to others.

The event has previously charged Chinese businessmen like convicted Ng Lap Seng money for photos with the UN Secretary General. Who paid this time?

Jump cut to February 2024, when UNCA published the ballot for its Executive Committee "election." In fine UN fashion there are no more candidates then spots: a clean slate, everyone will be elected. This includes, now, two representatives of China state media.

  In fine CCP fashion, UNCA after publication of the above blocked on X / Twitter, photo here - in the name of the officers, reps of AP, NPR, France 24 and Le Monde.

On February 9, the desultory results: an all time low "turnout" of 45, and some "winners" receive less than half of those votes, despite there being no competition.

The UN continues to ban all journalists from Taiwan, and to ban Inner City Press with Melissa Fleming and now Ian Phillips formerly of AP refusing to answer pro bono law firms' letters seeking the application of free press principles to the UN. We'll have more on this.

February 12, 2024

As UN Guterres Spins Terror Role of UNRWA Taps Colonna to Cover up as Ian Phillips Lies

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Feb 5 – For weeks Inner City Press has asked the UN and its media people, including Stephane Dujarric and News and Media chief Ian Phillips, about evidence that UNRWA workers took part in the October 7 attacks. No answers at all - censorship.

Now after SG Antonio Guterres' belated and begrudging acknowledgment, the UN assigned its OIOS to cover up, as it has done before, see here.

Then to complete the cover up, Guterres named Colonna. Inner City Press immediately in writing asked his spokesperson: "state how SG Guterres selected  Catherine Colonna, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, who will work with three research organizations: the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Sweden, the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Norway, and the Danish Institute for Human Rights - and summarize / provide copies of all communications with these on this topic (UNRWA) before SG Guterres selected them." No answer, and no one they let in asked.

Tellingly, even of Guterres cries poor to 35 member states, UNRWA is still hiring, with applications for post until through Feb 7, posted five days ago. No answers.

Does the UN corrupt everyone that goes to work for it?

Given the inflated salaries it pays its officials, the UN can collect and try to buttress its credibility with for example name-brand journalists. But what freedoms do they give up, and how low do they go?  

In 2023 the UN hired Ian Phillips, once the Associated Press' head of (get this) journalist safety. His LinkedIn profile, after moving to the UN, states that his "role includes advisory and policy work, with particular focus on press freedom."  

So Inner City Press, having been roughed up by UN Security and then banned from entering or getting even its written questions asked, last week wrote to Ian Phillips at the UN - and through his LinkedIn profile:

Hello Mr. Phillips. I am asking you to look into this and ensure that the UN Media and Accreditation Unit fairly process, and rule on, my pending application for (re) accreditation.   Two separate law firms have written the UN pro bono on my behalf, without answer." 

   No answer at all.
February 5, 2024

Guyana Takes Over UNSC For February But Ukraine Not Mentioned as Press Banned

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Feb 1 – Guyana tooks over the UN Security Council presidency on February 1, 2024 - while Inner City Press remains banned from the UN, despite its June 19 application.

On the morning of January 31, Inner City Press wrote to the Guyana Mission: This is a timely request that you allow Inner City Press to enter and cover, and/or provide the WebEx  pass code(s) to access Guyana's UNSC Presidency press briefing by your Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birketton February 1, 2024.

I have questions to ask on what you will do this month about Gaza, UNRWA and the coups in Gabon and Niger, Guyana's situation with Venezuela and the conflicts in Sudan, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Yemen and Libya, and the revelations of El Pollo now in SDNY - and on ongoing cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers on many of which Inner City Press first reported

Please note that Inner City Press and I participate in the WebEx briefings of, for example, the IMF: March 31, 2022 and since with new IMF spokesperson Sept 28, 2023

  By the end of February 1, no answer from the Guyana mission. The Ambassador held a comical press conference, nothing on Ukraine, broken audio, nothing but best wishes and wishful thinking. Watch this site.

 Inner City Press on June 19 applied to the UN for access, as it gives 100s, to cover the UNGA week. Inner City Press has a NYC Press Pass and writes about the UN. From Ecuador and its UN Mission, nothing.

Watch this site.

January 29, 2024

As UN of Guterres Admits Staff in Terror Attack of Oct 7 OIOS to Cover Up Spox Phillips Lies

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Jan 26 – For weeks Inner City Press has asked the UN and its media people, including Stephane Dujarric and News and Media chief Ian Phillips, about evidence that UNRWA workers took part in the October 7 attacks. No answers at all - censorship.

Now after SG Antonio Guterres' belated and begrudging acknowledgment, the UN has assigned its OIOS to cover up, as it has done before, see here.

Does the UN corrupt everyone that goes to work for it?

Given the inflated salaries it pays its officials, the UN can collect and try to buttress its credibility with for example name-brand journalists. But what freedoms do they give up, and how low do they go?  

In 2023 the UN hired Ian Phillips, once the Associated Press' head of (get this) journalist safety. His LinkedIn profile, after moving to the UN, states that his "role includes advisory and policy work, with particular focus on press freedom."  

So Inner City Press, having been roughed up by UN Security and then banned from entering or getting even its written questions asked, last week wrote to Ian Phillips at the UN - and through his LinkedIn profile:

Hello Mr. Phillips. I am asking you to look into this and ensure that the UN Media and Accreditation Unit fairly process, and rule on, my pending application for (re) accreditation.   Two separate law firms have written the UN pro bono on my behalf, without answer." 

   No answer at all. Is the money too good? Does journalist safety and free press only count when it is not the UN doing the roughing up, and the censoring?

In the past few days, we've sent our daily press questions to Mr. Phillips as well, since he's the head of the UN's "News and Media Division." Questions about Gaza and the Secretary General's finances. And no answers at all.  

 So again:  Does the UN corrupt everyone that goes to work for it? We will continue to report on this.

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January 22, 2024

UN PGA Francis Funded Only by China + 8 Heads There with Fake Minister as Adviser

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Jan 16 – When Dennis Francis took over at President of the UN General Assembly, his spokesperson Monica Grayley directed the press to his website.

But days later on September 11, 2023 under "Transparency," there were only two pages, both of which said "No posts."  Now there are only ten funders of his office: Qatar, Kuwait, China and Saudi Arabia; then Morocco, Azerbaijan and Oman, then in smaller amounts Italy, Guterres' Portugal, and South Korea for air fare. That's it.

On January 16, 2024 Monica Grayley, who has refused to answer written questions from the Press, announced Francis will travel to one of his ten funders, China, after the G77 and China in Uganda.  Cha-ching!

Today's UN is a joke: Francis has belated put online a PDF of staffers - but NOT of who pays them, a minimal reform announced after PGA Ashe's indictment. It includes "Mr. Ralph A. Kader Special Adviser to the PGA (Strategic Engagements and Resource Mobilization)."

  Among other things, Ralph Kader has been listed (and paid) as the "foreign minister" of the fake country of Monte de Agrella, which Inner City Press exposed before being thrown out by SG Antonio Guterres and still banned.

Inner City Press must be re-admitted to ask. Corruption.


After UNOPS Corruption Exposed by Inner City Press Buck Passing on Vanshelboim UN Appeal

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon

UN GATE, Jan 14 – In the United Nations under Antonio Guterres, there is nothing but failure and excuses and fundraising on crises like Ukraine, Gaza, Burma, Haiti and Cameroon. 

There is impunity for sexual abuse by peacekeepers and UN staff like Juan Carlos Cunillera, just "along for the ride" during the UN sex-in-the-van exposed by Inner City Press. 

But now as we looked at and asked about Guterres' omission of his links to UN briber CEFC China Energy, leading to him banning the Press (and Melissa Fleming continuing the ban, not even answering a law firm's pro bono letter), on April 17, 2022 we published on other officials - including long time UNOPS operative Vitaly Vanshelboim (whom Inner City Press covered in connection with UNOPS gag orders before being banned from UN by corrupt Guterres.)

We noted  that Vanshelboim's skeeze in the S3i scam of UNOPS's Grete Faremo.

  While others then noted for example that a long time member of the UN Correspondents Association Gloria Starr Kins played a role in hooking up the fraud, they don't mention UNCA and their role in banning the Press.

Now, there is or might be some openness, of the UN circus:

 The Applicant, a former staff member of the United Nations Office for Project Services (“UNOPS”), contests the decision to impose on him the disciplinary measures of dismissal and a fine of twelve month’s net base salary. He also contests the decision to recover from him the amount of USD63,626,806 and to withhold the release of the PF.4 form (“separation notification”) to the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (“UNJSPF”) until such indebtedness is fully recovered... By email dated 24 November 2023, the Tribunal asked the parties to confirm their availability to virtually attend a Case Management Discussion (“CMD”) between 11 and 15 December 2023.

Then, after Inner City Press on December 4 published the above, the UN changed Vanshelboim's proceeding, which portend more waste of the public's funds, to "closed to the public."

And now, after the non-public proceeding, more passing of the buck: Judge Sun Xiangzhuang has assigned "the following Judges to the Three-Judge Panel to adjudicate the matter of Vanshelboim UNDT/GVA/2023/020: Judge Sun Xiangzhuang, Presiding Judge Joelle Adda Judge Sean Wallace." This is Antonio Guterres' UN: totally corrupt.

Watch this site - and Vanshelboim, here:

Two (2) residential properties, Ukraine
Two (2) residential properties, jointly owned, USA
Annuity, ING, USA
Investment fund, Citi Bank, USA
Investment fund, Danske Invest, jointly owned, Denmark

So while Citibank ("Citi Bank") still does business in Russia, what are the statuses of Vanshelboim's Ukraine properties? Either way, no friend of Press freedom.

  We'll have more on this.
January 15, 2024

UN Censorship Redux as Florencia Soto Nino Takes Public Money To Cover Up Corruption

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon

UN GATE, Jan 8 – The UN has been corrupted by Antonio Guterres as Secretary General. He arrived and immediately refused to answer, even pretended not to hear, questions by Inner City Press, about Cameroon and his own link to CEFC China Energy.

  Then he had his spokesman Stephane Dujarric get Inner City Press roughed up by UN Security Ronald E. Dobbins and others as it covered one of Guterres' speeches, here, and the UN Budget Committee, video here.  

Guterres' designated censor Melissa Fleming, who uses public money for a vanity podcast, has kept Inner City Press banned  even from UN briefings on WebEx / Teams / Zoom of the kind it asks questions on at the IMF and attends at WHO. The UN is corrupt.

 Dujarric promised on camera that Inner City Press' written questions would be answered, here - but then stopped, and blocked Inner City Press on Twitter, and on WhatsApp on which he claimed to take questions.

  Guterres' Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq deleted or leaves Inner City Press' questions as soon as he gets them on WhatsApp.  

 Associate Spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino Martinez has joined Dujarric in blocking Inner City Press on WhatsApp. But on Jan 8, 2024 she was the spokesperson in charge - she was again taking public money. Despite that, she neither answered nor even acknowledged receiving written Press questions about UN rapes, and Gaza and Somaliland.

No answers at all. So who is Florencia Soto Nino?  

  She has no problem trying to promote herself. On Medium she describes her bike ride from Brooklyn to the UN; she puts a photograph with Guterres on Tumblr.

On Twitter she calls herself a "Digital strategist & communicator at  @UN" -- while having less then 800 followers. 

  One of her few public quotes is "to take the necessary precautions to ensure no sensitive content is public,” U.N. Spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez said."

How much has she taken in public funds during this time, while refusing to answer a single question? Watch this site.

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January 8, 2024

France Taking Over UNSC For January No Answers UN Peaceeping Rapes Despite Press Q

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Jan 2 – France took over the UN Security Council presidency on January 1, 2024 - while Inner City Press is still banned from the UN, despite its June 19 application.

On December 29, Inner City Press wrote to the French mission and its listed spokesperson Alexis Mojaisky: "This is a timely request that you allow Inner City Press to enter and cover, and/or provide the WebEx  pass code(s) to access France's UNSC Presidency press briefing by your Ambassador Nicholas de Riviere on January 2, 2024. I have questions to ask on what you will do this month about Gaza and Darfur, as well as the coups in Gabon and Niger and the conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Yemen and Libya - and on ongoing cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers on many of which Inner City Press first reported... Inner City Press and I participate in the WebEx briefings of, for example, the IMF, e.g. on  Sept 28, 2023: MS. KOZACK:  Matthew Lee, let's start with you. Sure. QUESTIONER: Thanks a lot. Matthew Lee, Inner Press. I saw the program with Burkina Faso, and so I'm just wondering what's the status of the IMF's discussions with and programs with other coup governments like in Niger, Mali and now Gabon."

With the IMF taking my questions by WebEx, how can your Mission not do the same?"

Mojaisky (auto) replied, "En congés, de retour le 2 janvier. Je vous remercie de contacter en cas de besoin Arnaud Balner (Chancellerie) ou Izabela Wiewior (Presse).  On holidays, I will be back on January 2nd. Please contact Arnaud Balner or Izabela Wiewior if needed.  Jestem na urlopie i wrócę 2 stycznia. W razie jakichkolwiek pytań prosimy o kontakt z Arnaudem Balnerem (Kancelaria) lub Izabelą Wiewior (Prasa)."

But even re-sent to them, neither of those two replied - although Balner (auto) replied "A partir du 2 janvier, en cas d'urgence, merci de vous adresser à Alexis Mojaisky ou Lucie Stepanyan" (the latter also did not reply.)

On January 2, Nicolas De Riviere took questions from China and other state media.

 Inner City Press on June 19 applied to the UN for access, as it gives 100s, to cover the UNGA week. Inner City Press has a NYC Press Pass and writes about the UN. From France and its UN Mission, nothing.

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January 1, 2024

Brazil Ends 2 Years on UNSC Blocking Press on X and Refusing Written Questions on El Pollo

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Dec 29 – Brazil took over the UN Security Council presidency on October 1, 2023 - while Inner City Press is still banned from the UN, despite its June 19 application.

  Inner City Press thought banned reported on Brazil's October 2 press conference, below. On October 7 amid Gaza - Israel, Inner City Press heard that Brazil claimed it has taking the lead to schedule a Sunday UNSC meeting. Nothing in email - and it emerged that the Brazil Mission has *blocked* Inner City Press on X, photo here

  Now at the end of December, after two years failing on the Council and being hypocrites, the Brazilian team faces out, punching below their weight, and still blocking the Press. From Ambassador Sérgio França Danese through Fabio Coelho to Angelica Silva, no answers. For an ostensibly major country, its two years on the UNSC are an embarrassment.

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December 25, 2023

On Gaza UNSC Kabuki Theater US Abstains on Toothless Resolution With Press Banned by SG

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Dec 22 –  Amid Gaza the UN Security Council's failure has exceeded two months (and much longer on Ukraine). On December 19, 20 and 21 votes were postponed until finally US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, at a stakeout with the Press banned, said in its current form the US would support a resolution. But without impact or integrity: this USUN lets the UN ban US-based Press.

And on December 22 it happened - a bid to amend the US draft was vetoed by the US, which then abstained on the draft that, it would appear, will have not impact on the ground. Inner City Press video here. Now censor Guterres will brag about it.

   Talk about phoning it in. Today's UN is corrupt. 

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December 18, 2023

Amid Gaza Guterres Parties with Sharon Stone With UNCA Murky Businessmen in Shadows

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Dec 15 – In the midst of the war in Gaza, with the UN failing as on Ukraine, the tragic corruptions was mirrored in farce at the UN Correspondents Association garish ball on December 15.

They charged their members, including Iran and China state media, $150 - and much more to others.

The event has previously charged Chinese businessmen like convicted Ng Lap Seng money for photos with the UN Secretary General. Who paid this time?

It's hard to know - it seems Casa Cipriani sometimes outlaws photos, just as Guterres first banned Inner City Press from his photo ops -- too many details - then the UN as a whole.

Still, at least two attendees put it out and it was disgusting, given the context.

Outside, Inner City Press live streamed as Guterres slipped in through the back door; then Melissa Fleming refused to say why she has ignored pro bono law firms letters to her about the First Amendment and Press freedom. Let them eat cake.

They claimed Sharon Stone was getting a "UN" award and refused to clarify. Everything is for sale - today's UN and its UN Censorship Alliance are corrupt. 

   Meanwhile UNCA beyond being complicit in the ouster and ban of Inner City Press from the UN played an active role, with UNCA members complaining to and through their point of contact Stephane Dujarric, who emerged from the Casa in a tux. A symbiosis of sleaze and censorship. We'll have more on this.

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December 11, 2023

Gaza Resolution Fails in UNSC Thomas Greenfield Out UN Guterres Monetizes Art 99

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Dec 8 – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres bragged about invoking "Article 99" on December 6 about Gaza, while banning Inner City Press which has asked about his failures there and in Ukraine, Ethiopia and Cameroon.  

Immediately, Guterres worked to monetize the move. According to an official Saudi Arabia read-out, Guterres called their foreign minister to brag about the "speech" (it was a letter) invoking Article 99.

  The Saudi readout says they congratulated him - "appreciation and great support" - like the time MBS gave a huge check to stay quiet about his bombing of Yemen. This is not diplomacy: this is sale of office.

  But the Gaza resolution - with no mention of Hamas in it - failed on October 9, with US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield not present but veto cast, and UK abstaining. Gabon then said passage would have meant a ceasefire. Really? US "actions" are meaningless; Guterres cannot even let the Press in. Totally corrupt.

In the UN, predictably the choir - the correspondents Guterres lets in and for whom he is set to raise funds on December 15 in a ghoulish Casa Cipriani gala - sung his praises.

  But consider: the Nazi UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim also grandly invoked Article 99 during his tenure.

And why didn't Guterres do so, if body count is his standard, in conflicts with higher casualties? His standard is finger in the wind, keeping living in the Sutton Place mansion, banning Inner City Press that asks.

His spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming do not answer written questions on this; Fleming has refused to answer two pro bono law firm letters about ending censorship. Today's UN is corrupt

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December 4, 2023

Ecuador Takes Over UNSC For December Scam on Corruption No El Pollo Answers Press Ban

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Dec 1 – Ecuador took the UN Security Council presidency on December 1, 2023 - while Inner City Press is still banned from the UN, despite its June 19 application.

  New president Daniel Noboa, described as a banana heir, appointed as his ambassador José de la Gasca, described as an expert in criminal law. It could come in handy at the UN, where PGA John Ashe was indicted, and convicted Ghislaine Maxwell held a press conference and more. But under de la Gasca, no answers to the Press so far.

  Announced on December 1, Ecuador will hold a session on transnational crime (while refusing questions on Venezuela's El Pollo), chaired by FM Maria Gabriela Sommerfeld with two corrupt briefers including Ghada Fathi Waly.

On November 29, Inner City Press wrote to the Ecuadorian Mission: This is a timely request that you allow Inner City Press to enter and cover, and/or provide the WebEx  pass code(s) to access Ecuador's UNSC Presidency press briefing by your Ambassador on December 1, 2023.

I have questions to ask on what you will do this month about Gaza and the coups in Gabon and Niger and the conflicts in Sudan, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Yemen and Libya, and the revelations of El Pollo now in SDNY - and on ongoing cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers on many of which Inner City Press first reported.

Two days later, no answer from the Ecuador mission. A press conference barely 20 minutes long, half speech, could easily has allowed Inner City Press' questions but didn't. Watch this site.

 Inner City Press on June 19 applied to the UN for access, as it gives 100s, to cover the UNGA week. Inner City Press has a NYC Press Pass and writes about the UN. From Ecuador and its UN Mission, nothing.

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November 27, 2023

Eager to Purge the Internet of Anti UN Info USG Melissa Fleming Polls Staff on Hate Speech

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Nov 24 – As the United Nations, having failed on Ukraine and largely on Gaza, increasingly focus on issues like trying to censor the Internet of any anti-UN content, the organization this month is surveying its own staff.

Disgusted histleblowers sent it to Inner City Press, banned from even entering the UN by Department of Global Communications boss Melissa Fleming:

Global Staff Survey on Information Environments     How often do you use social media?  What do you view as a reliable source of information?  Do you see negative impacts of potentially harmful information on your work? 

 The survey aims to shed light on how information is spreading; and if and how potentially harmful information is impacting our work, our priorities, and the communities we serve.  The survey’s findings will help support the UN’s work on information integrity – to make digital and information environments safer and more inclusive for all.  The results will also feed into the development of the global code of conduct on information integrity, which will be published in June 2024 ahead of the Summit of the Future.


 Potentially harmful information includes hate speech against people or communities OR misleading or false information.   This information might be circulating online (websites, social networks, messaging apps), via news media (radio, TV, newspapers), via speeches by politicians or community leaders, or via posters and pamphlets.   Where do you encounter potentially harmful information the most? (Select one choice)  I don't experience potentially harmful information  Social Networks (e.g. Douyin, Facebook, Instagram, Kuaishou, LinkedIn, Tiktok, Twitter/X, VKontakte, WeChat, Weibo, Youtube, other)  Messaging Apps (e.g. Facebook Messenger, iMessage, KakaoTalk, Line, Signal, Snapchat, Telegram, QQ, Viber, WhatsApp, other)  Broadcast media (e.g. radio, television)  Podcasts  

  And what will USG Fleming, who has refused to answer a pro bono law firm's letter to her about lifting her lawless ban on Inner City Press, do with the information she collects and cherry picks? Watch this site

November 20, 2023

On Gaza UN Guterres Cares Only for Himself in CNN Self Justification Dismissing Yemen Death

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Nov 12 – Amid Gaza the UN Security Council's failure continued on Friday, November 10. On November 12, UNSG Antonio Guterres on CNN - to defend himself. He complained: "when this is commented by the Israeli government or the ambassador, whatever, they put the first part of the sentence."

He was dismissive of the Saudi bombing of children on Yemen which he covered up at the time: "If you remember, the polemics about the uproar about the Saudi bombardments in Yemen. 600 people in one year." Yeah, polemics.

 Meanwhile, despite a Friday morning protest at the publicly-funded mansion UNSG Antonio Guterres lives in on Sutton Place, not a single one of the correspondents let into his spokesman Stephane Dujarric's scam "press briefing" asked for a response to the protest. Not one.

 Inner City Press was banned from the "press" briefing, even by WebEx, and its written questions were not answered.

  After the first round of speeches in the UNSC Friday, there were no replies, and at the stakeout outside the Council, from which Inner City Press is banned by Guterres and Melissa Fleming, no questions at all. A fish rots from the head. Today's UN is corrupt. 

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November 13, 2023

On UNRWA Inner City Press Asked UN As ESCWA Staff Complained to SG Now Extended

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book

UN GATE EXCLUSIVE, Nov 8 – 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, as he promotes a "press" conference about Gaza by these corruptos

 Consider ESCWA, on which Guterres has refused to answer Press questions after receiving (along with his equally censoring cronies) this from ESCWA staff:

From: ESCWA UNRWA Staff  Data: April 11, 2023 Subject: Appeal from ESCWA Staff To: ag@un.org Cc: Lopez22@un.org, rola.dashti@un.org, makhmudov@un.org, pollardc@un.org, mounir.tabet@un.org, ndiyae@un.org, armstronge@un.org, courtenay.rattray@un.org, Noun@un.org, Ali.aldabag@un.org 

Secretary-General,    We, a group of ESCWA staff, fear retaliation from the ESCWA Executive Secretary, Ms. Rola Dashti, and are sending you this email anonymously since the Ethics Office and OIOS have failed to take action and protect us.  Today, the Executive Secretary (supported by the ASG/OHR, Ms. Martha Helena Lopez, and the EOSG) has requested the processing of the resignation of Mr. Ahmad Dik, Director of Resources Management and Services Development Division, effective 14 April 2023 (in 3 days from now) which was approved personally by your ASG for OHR Ms. Martha Helena Lopez following a deal between her and the Executive Secretary of ESCWA who visited UNHQ for this purpose a few weeks ago.  An OIOS investigation has established that Mr. Ahmad Dik committed sexual harassment, misconduct, and fraud. Instead of being dismissed, he was put on special leave with full pay for a year, and now he is being rewarded with a resignation without a single disciplinary measure issued against him. He is also negotiating the payment of his three months of annual leave.  We, the ESCWA staff, are shocked that the Office of the Secretary-General and the ASG for OHR, ms. Martha Helena Lopez would approve such a course of action instead of enforcing the accountability framework and dismissing Mr. Dik. We ask that you hold your ASG, OHR, accountable for her lack of integrity and for facilitating the reward of sexual predators and thieves.  Mr. Ahmad Dik and Mr. Akmal Makhmudov (Chief, People Management Central) have been facilitators of the Executive Secretary’s wrongdoings for the past three years. Mr. Dik and the Executive Secretary have promised Mr. Makhmudov a promotion from the P-4 to the P-5 in return for him facilitating and approving the appointment of several of the ES’s relatives and the irregular promotion of several of Mr. Dik’s cronies, such as Ms. Hanadi Baltagi and Ms. Carla Ziade. The Chief of HR, Mr. Akmal Makhmudov, approved all these appointments and promotions. The ESCWA staff are all aware of this situation.   In addition, Mr. Makhmudov and Mr. Dik have previously engaged in intimidation of staff at ESCWA to prevent them from reporting misconduct to UNHQ. Several ESCWA staff have reported such misconduct, and an OIOS investigation has occurred. Unfortunately, instead of enforcing accountability, your office is doing the opposite: encouraging the wrongdoers and sexual harassers to continue their misconduct and get rewarded for it.  Mr. Dik should be dismissed and terminated for misconduct instead of being allowed to resign in compliance with the rules and regulations of the United Nations.  Mr. Makhmudov, who aided the ES and Mr. Dik, should be investigated for all his misconduct and cover-up schemes during the last three years and prevented from continuing his duties as Chief of HR.  We ask you, as Secretary-General, to remove the Executive Secretary of ESCWA from office as she has lost the trust of all ESCWA staff whom she keeps retaliating against.  This toxic culture must end now."

Guterres' response? To extend here. More failure on Gaza.

So here's some of the UNRWA story, with more to come -

Here is the letter, freely available on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here

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.

November 6, 2023

Failing on Gaza Guterres' UN Wastes Public Money on CulturePulse Creating AI Clones

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 4 – While the UN fails on Gaza in the real world, it is wasting public money paying a for-profit AI company to invade the privacy of each and every resident of the Strip and West Bank, as well as Israel.  

For-profit CulturePulse has bragged of the "contract they signed with the UN in August to develop a first-of-its-kind AI model [to] analyze the Israel-Palestinian conflict... the model has replicated every single person virtually each imbued with demographics, religious beliefs, and moral values that echo their real-world counterparts." 

 Inner City Press, banned from the UN by SG Antonio Guterres, in writing has repeatedly asked UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming who authorized the UN to do this, how CulturePass was selected and how much they are being paid.

  No answer - Dujarric claims Inner City Press is out due to "danger" but can't answer written questions, or allow WebEx access. Totally corrupt.

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October 30, 2023

On Gaza in UNGA Canada Amendment Fails So No Hamas as Bob Rae Blocks Press as Guterres

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Oct 27 – On October 7 amid Gaza - Israel, Inner City Press heard that Brazil claimed it has taking the lead to schedule a Sunday UN Security Council meeting. Nothing in email - and it emerged that the Brazil Mission has *blocked* Inner City Press on X, photo here

  On October 17 despite UNSC and UN censorship, Inner City Press reported on Brazil's doomed draft. And on October 18, as predicted, it failed, with the US vetoing, and Russia and the UK abstaining.

On October 25, another double failure, with a China and Russia double veto of the US draft, and nine abstentions on Russia's. Mansour praised Guterres, whose arrogance (he won't respond to calls to resign from a single member state, echo of Boutros) is becoming wider known- as he bans Press.

On October 26 in a UNGA meeting chaired by Dennis Francis, who refuses Press questions on his funding by Qatar, China, Saudi, Kuwait and now Morocco, Iran said the US will "not be spared from this fire." Then he strolled back to the hotel on 43rd Street.

To the pending GA resolution, Canada has a proposed amendment on Hamas - while Canadian ambassador Bob Rae blocks Inner City Press on X.

On October 27, the Canada amendment failed, 88-55-23.  The Jordan resolution, without the Hamas language passed amid applause, 120-14-45. A fish rots from the head.

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October 23, 2023

Amid Gaza UNSC Fails under Brazil Blocking Press on X US Veto UK and Russia Abstain

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Oct 18 – Brazil took over the UN Security Council presidency on October 1, 2023 - while Inner City Press is still banned from the UN, despite its June 19 application.

  Inner City Press thought banned reported on Brazil's October 2 press conference, below. On October 7 amid Gaza - Israel, Inner City Press heard that Brazil claimed it has taking the lead to schedule a Sunday UNSC meeting. Nothing in email - and it emerged that the Brazil Mission has *blocked* Inner City Press on X, photo here

  On October 17 despite UNSC and UN censorship, Inner City Press reported on Brazil's doomed draft, and the Russian proposed amendments thereto and predicted: Nothing will be accomplished in the UN full of censorship, corrupted by Guterres, a fish rots from the head. Inner City Press had an application to enter, and lawyers' letter, pending.

And on October 18, as predicted, it failed, with the US vetoing, and Russia and the UK abstaining.

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October 16, 2023

On Gaza UNSG Guterres Fake Tears for Media While Banning Press on Hold with Jake Sullivan

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Oct 13 –  The UN system is failing on Gaza and Ukraine, the Uighurs and Cameroon. And while it's mostly the fault of SG Antonio Guterres, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric as well as his his drab appointee as human rights designee Volker Turk are also to blame.

On October 13 Guterres read statements on his way and and, two hours later, out of the Security Council, while getting played by Russia. Guterres pretended to care about attacks on the media, while himself banning Inner City Press for asking about his finances. China came out and supported him, as he has supported them since purchase. The UK said they hadn't had long enough with the poison-pill draft resolution. A circus of failure.

 On October 12 it was said that this UN Spokesman had announced Israel's dictum to move south from North Gaza, and the UN's response. But try as one might, there was nothing on the UN's or Spokesperson's website, and nothing was sent out by his office for reporters who signed up. It was whispered to the insiders - mostly state media, heavy with China and Qatar - with whom Dujarric surrounds himself. A corrupt failure.


Totally corrupt - and no answer from the UN to Inner City Press June 19, 2023 application to enter and over this travesty. Watch this site.

October 9, 2023

Amid Gaza Israel UN PGA Silent Qatar Saudi Funds with Fake Minister as Adviser, Press Ban

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Oct 7 – When Dennis Francis took over at President of the UN General Assembly, his spokesperson Monica Grayley directed the press to his website.

But days later on September 11, under "Transparency," there were only two pages, both of which said "No posts."  Now there are only four funders of his office: Qatar, Kuwait, China and Saudi Arabia.

And on October 7, long after others had issued their statements on Gaza and Israel, absolutely nothing from UN PGA Dennis Francis' many spokespeople, who normally send out several canned statements a day. Meanwhile defenders of the UN will be calling for and hyping up a meeting of the GA, once the Security Council (set to meet on October 8) fails. Watch this site.

Today's UN is a joke: Francis has belated put online a PDF of staffers - but NOT of who pays them, a minimal reform announced after PGA Ashe's indictment. It includes "Mr. Ralph A. Kader Special Adviser to the PGA (Strategic Engagements and Resource Mobilization)."

  Among other things, Ralph Kader has been listed (and paid) as the "foreign minister" of the fake country of Monte de Agrella, which Inner City Press exposed before being thrown out by SG Antonio Guterres and still banned.

Inner City Press must be re-admitted to ask. Corruption.

October 2, 2023

UN PGA Adviser Is FM of Fake Country Monte de Agrella as Corruption Worsens Press Banned

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Sept 28 – When Dennis Francis took over at President of the General Assembly, his spokesperson Monica Grayley directed the press to his website.

But days later on September 11, under "Transparency," there were only two pages, both of which said "No posts."  Now 40% owned by China.

This week Francis has belated put online a PDF of staffers - but NOT of who pays them, a minimal reform announced after PGA Ashe's indictment. It includes "Mr. Ralph A. Kader Special Adviser to the PGA (Strategic Engagements and Resource Mobilization)."

  Among other things, Ralph Kader has been listed (and paid) as the "foreign minister" of the fake country of Monte de Agrella, which Inner City Press exposed before being thrown out by SG Antonio Guterres and still banned.

Inner City Press must be re-admitted to ask. Corruption.

September 25, 2023

At UNGA India and Pakistan Clash as Iran Trashes Israel and Japan the Solomon Islands

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Sept 22 – As the UN General Assembly without France or the UK claimed to get underway on Saturday, September 16, 2023 in a temporary building wastefully built on its North Lawn, across First Avenue there was a Burmese rally.

   Inner City Press, banned from the UN by pro-China UNSG Antonio Guterres, covered it. Video here.  

  On Friday, September 22, finally on day 4 some rights of reply, though only four. India trashed Pakistan, which returned the favor. Iran shot back at Israel, and Japan dunked on the Solomon Islands, which apparently wasn't present. The UN and UNGA are in decay.

SG Antonio Guterres' UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric refused dozens of written questions from Inner City Press about the junta's plot to kill Kyaw Moe Tun, as prosecuted in the SDNY court Inner City Press covers daily since being thrown out of the UN by Guterres, and kept out by his Melissa Fleming. 

 Fleming, as reported, refused to response to a June 19 application by Inner City Press to enter and cover this UNGA, and then a pro bono law firm letter.

She will, however, apparently still give a speech this week it costs $800 or $2000 to attend.

Today's UN is totally corrupt.

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September 18, 2023

By UNGA Burmese Vainly Asks Credentials for Kyaw Moe Tun But China on UN Committee

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Sept 16 – As the UN General Assembly without France or the UK claimed to get underway on Saturday, in a temporary building wastefully built on its North Lawn, across First Avenue there was a Burmese rally.

   Inner City Press, banned from the UN by pro-China UNSG Antonio Guterres, covered it. Video here.  

The rally urged the UN to credential NUG's Kyaw Moe Tun. But of course they won't: China is on the UN Credentials Committee.

And Guterres' UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric refused dozens of written questions from Inner City Press about the junta's plot to kill Kyaw Moe Tun, as prosecuted in the SDNY court Inner City Press covers daily since being thrown out of the UN by Guterres, and kept out by his Melissa Fleming. 

 Fleming, as reported, refused to response to a June 19 application by Inner City Press to enter and cover this UNGA, and then a pro bono law firm letter.

She will, however, give a speech this week it costs $800 or $2000 to attend.

Today's UN is totally corrupt.

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September 11, 2023

UN Guterres Flies & Lies With China's Li about Reform while Banning Press from Dying UNGA

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Sept 7 – The annual ritual of the UN General Assembly week is getting more and more wan under Antonio Guterres.

  This as he this week spends public money flying and lying from Kenya to Indonesia to Cuba. In Stop 2, Jakarta, on September 7 this telling read-out: Guterres "met with H.E. Mr. Li Qiang, Premier of the People’s Republic of China. The Secretary-General thanked Premier Li for China’s steadfast contribution to the United Nations and its activities" - and to himself.   "The Secretary-General expressed readiness to strengthen cooperation with China in all the pillars of United Nations activity" - this from a man called racist by his staff, and who has colluded with and use dictators across the Continent, from Paul Biya in Cameroon to Bongo in Gabo.

In 2023 not only Xi of China and Russia's Putin for obvious reasons isn't coming - even French president Macron, and the UK's not-for-long prime minister are blowing it off.

That's four out of the five Permanent Members of the Security Council, those who on paper benefit most from the decaying UN, not bother to come. Guterres is lying about reform, including of the "international financial architecture."

Only Biden is coming - and the US is the country watching as Guterres hands post after post to China, while concealing his financial links to its convicted bribery firm CEFC China Energy, and banning Inner City Press which uncovered and asked about it. 

 The schedule released on September 1 still listed the "head of state" of Gabon, Ali Bongo, who pleading for (and receiving Guterres' useless) support to keep his family in power for another year after fifty.

Inner City Press on June 19 applied to Guterres' censoring sidekick Melissa Fleming for access to UNGA week, which she gives to countless blood-splattered state media of Saudi Arabia, Iran and even Cameroon.

No answers, even as the supposed September 1 deadline passed. The UN's time has passed. Watch this site.

September 4, 2023

Amid Gabon Coup New UNGA Speakers List Still Lists Their Head of State on Sept 21

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Sept 1 – The Bongo family, which has ruled French colony Gabon for more than 50 years, was deposed by a coup d'etat by the military on August 30, 2023.

 The day before, Inner City Press asked the UN and the US Mission to the UN about the opposition's complaints about Bongo's staged re-election, with the Internet cut. No answer.  

On August 30 after the coup, the UN Security Council presided over by the US canceled its morning meeting - on North Korea and Mali no less - without saying why. 

  Gabon is one of the 15 members of the UN Security Council.

And on September 1, the new UNGA speakers list still had Gabon's "head of state" on September 21, list here.

 Inside the UN, the spokesman for SG Antonio Guterres, who has often glad-handed with Bongo as with Paul Biya of Cameroon and others, was more than half an hour late to the briefing (he bans Inner City Press from). FrancAfrique got his tongue?  

Inner City Press on June 19 applied to UN MALU's Melissa Fleming to enter the UN and cover September's UNGA. Even as of August 30, no answer. A totally corrupt organization. Watch this site.


Albania Takes Over UNSC For Sept Hoxha Virtue Signals While Refusing Press Questions

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Sept 1 – Albania took over the UN Security Council presidency on September 1, 2023 - while Inner City Press is still banned from the UN, despite its June 19 application.

 On September 1 Albanian Ambassador Ferit Hoxha took questions largely from state media, hardly any mentions of the coups in Niger and Gabon, and the killing of anti-UN protesters in the DRC. Video here.

Hoxha said the UN "needs Master Card and Google." Cha-ching.

  Inner City Press had and has put questions to Hoxha's Albanian Mission about each of these, about the failure of UN Peacekeeping in Mali and Antonio Guterres banning Inner City Press.

 Inner City Press back on June 19 applied to enter to cover the UNGA "High Level" week that Hoxha gushed about. We will not rest - and even while banned, will cover this month.

 And beyond acquiescence in censorship, Hoxha and the Albanian Mission are silent on UN corruption (Guterres omitting SDNY convicted CEFC China Energy's link to his finance, through Gulbenkian), and UN rapes by peacekeepers.

 Inner City Press on June 19 applied to the UN for access, as it gives 100s, to cover the UNGA week. Inner City Press has a NYC Press Pass and writes about the UN. From Albania and Hoxha, nothing.

August 28, 2023

UN Guterres on 3 Week Vacation Protests Fez Coverage While Dujarric Refuses Press Qs

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Aug 20 –   UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has disappeared for weeks, most recently silent about the missiles fired at Chernihiv in Urkaine.  

  When Inner City Press, which Guterres has banned from the UN, asks his spokesman Stephane Dujarric such questions as how much Guterres' many vacations cost the global taxpayers, Dujarric refuses to answer.   But selectively he had reached out to a media in Algeria, claiming that if they had asked, it would have answered:

the spokesman for the Secretary General of the United Nations, Stéphane Dujarric. "I am writing to you, following the publication of your article concerning the holidays of Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations", indicated the spokesperson in a precision stressing that he was "saddened to see that the article relayed totally false information. He claimed that “these facts could very easily have been verified by a simple email or phone call to the United Nations. Unfortunately, the tone of the article leaves little room for doubt as to the journalist's intentions and bias vis-à-vis the Secretary General”. Stéphane Dujarric specifies in this regard that "the secretary-general is indeed on vacation, but his holidays take place in Portugal as well as in the United States, and in no case in Fez". The spokesperson for the Secretary General of the United Nations also specifies that "if the photos published were indeed taken in Fez, they were taken in November 2022, during the participation of the Secretary General in the Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations of United Nations. There too, these are public facts and very easily verifiable”.  

So we're asking: where in the US? And at what cost? And why no response of any kind to Inner City Press' June 19, 2023 application to enter and cover UNGA high level week in September? Guterres is a censor. 


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August 21, 2023

Past UN Official Stelzer Replies on Suspension from Anti Corruption Group UNlike Guterres

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Aug 19 –  How corrupt is the United Nations? Well, as we reported on July 31, 2023, former UN Assistant Thomas Stelzer irregular payment to whom Inner City Press asked the UN Spokesperson about until it was thrown out of the UN, has now been suspended as head of the International Anti-Corruption Academy for, what else, corruption. 

  The suspension, confirmed by Stelzer himself, is about private trips that were declared as professional and incorrectly charged expenses. In addition, earmarked funds are said not to have been used for the intended projects. The public prosecutor's office in Wiener Neustadt confirmed on request that they were examining an initial suspicion.  

  Inner City Press, before ouster orchestrated by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and his spokesman Stephane Dujarric asked then UN Spokesperson Martin Nesirky, "what are the specifics of working at the UN without a contract? It said that Mr. Stelzer is being paid as, almost as a consultant, although he is an ASG, at least on paper. 

  Nesirky, still employed by the UN in Vienna, replied, Well, I don’t think right here and now I would want to get into individual personnel cases. I don’t think that is appropriate. 

Now by contrast to the UN of Antonio Guterres and Stephane Dujarric, refusing to answer this and other questions, this from Stelzer: "Dear Matthew Russel Lee,  Just becoming aware that I have returned to Inner City Press. I appreciate your efforts to enhance transparency. This is what I have been pursuing all my life.  Regarding the anonymous allegations brought against me as Dean of the International Anti-Corruption Academy, I have informed friends and colleagues (transparently and pro-actively). For your information, I am copying that message into this mail.  In the meantime, I have responded in writing to all anonymous allegations, which I believe are completely false and also without criminal relevance.  I am confident that my explanation will disprove all allegations, that the State Prosecutor‘s Office will discontinue the investigation and that I will be able to return to my job to continue offering technical assistance and capacity building to practitioners in the fight against corruption.  With my best regards. Thomas Stelzer

 Inner City Press has been banned from the UN, and no response yet to its June 19, 2023 application to re-enter and cover the September 2023 UNGA week. Is that appropriate? Watch this site. 

August 14, 2023

Amid Aid Blockades UN Guterres Canned Statements Are All Skau Offers Lachin as Niger

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Aug 8 – Today's United Nation has become a self-important bystander to carnage, convinced that its own canned statements are having some impact. They are not.
 
  On August 7, the UN's so-called Resident Coordinator in or to Armenia Nanna Skau when asked what steps the UN was taking in the face of a blockade of the Lachin corridor mere read out a canned statement by Secretary General Antonio Guterres, which itself had been read out by his spokesman Farhan Haq who refused Press questions.

It was reported that in Kornidzor village by Nagorno-Karabakh "to the remark that since June 15, no humanitarian cargo, including medicine, has entered Nagorno-Karabakh, and asked whether there were any other effective steps that will make it possible to send humanitarian cargo to Nagorno-Karabakh, Skau responded that unfortunately, at the moment, she cannot say more than the aforesaid statement that was issued last night and was made public today at 5am. She added that they expect this statement to lead to positive results." Why?

Meanwhile, Guterres named "Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov of Azerbaijan as the UN Resident Coordinator in Ethiopia, with the host government’s approval." This guy has appeared beside Haq, in briefing from which Guterres bans the Press. This is today's UN.

  Amid the coup in Niger, the UN Resident Coordinator Louise Aubin has been out of the country, location undisclosed.

 On July 27, Inner City Press in writing asked SG Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric to immediately state where this UN official is. Dujarric, who along with Melissa Fleming has banned Inner City Press from entering to ask, did not answer. Nor did Aubin.

  This echoes other Guterres cronies going MIA - Inger Anderson, for example, as head of UNEP left Nairobi during the COVID pandemic.

Inner City Press has applied to re-enter to cover the upcoming UNGA Week, watch this site.

August 7, 2023

Amid Niger Coup UN Guterres Crony Louise Aubin still MIA while Press Banned from Santos

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, Aug 1– Amid the coup in Niger, the UN Resident Coordinator Louise Aubin has been out of the country, location undisclosed.

 On July 27, Inner City Press in writing asked SG Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric to immediately state where this UN official is. Dujarric, who along with Melissa Fleming has banned Inner City Press from entering to ask, did not answer. Nor did Aubin.

  Instead, ill-informed deputy Nicole Kouassi was streamed into the largely UN Press Briefing Room on July 28. She said that she and UN Niger are not in contact with military. No one let in by the UN asked where Guterres' resident coordinator is. 

  This echoes other Guterres cronies going MIA - Inger Anderson, for example, as head of UNEP left Nairobi during the COVID pandemic.

 It happens all the time, and the UN apparently only lets in those who won't ask about it. So too for an August 1 "press" conference, from which the Press is banned: "1 pm   Press Briefing Room, S-237   Hybrid Press Briefing by Leonardo Santos Simão, Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel, Head of United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), virtually, on situation in Niger." No provision for non-insiders to ask questions, which it is now clear is possible. The UN censors

Inner City Press has applied to re-enter to cover the upcoming UNGA Week, watch this site.

July 31, 2023

Amid Niger Coup UN Guterres Crony Louise Aubin Out of Country, UN No Talks with Army

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, July 28– Amid the coup in Niger, the UN Resident Coordinator Louise Aubin has been out of the country, location undisclosed.

 On July 27, Inner City Press in writing asked SG Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric to immediately state where this UN official is. Dujarric, who along with Melissa Fleming has banned Inner City Press from entering to ask, did not answer. Nor did Aubin.

  Instead, ill-informed deputy Nicole Kouassi was streamed into the largely UN Press Briefing Room on July 28. She said that she and UN Niger are not in contact with military. No one let in by the UN asked where Guterres' resident coordinator is. 

  This echoes other Guterres cronies going MIA - Inger Anderson, for example, as head of UNEP left Nairobi during the COVID pandemic.

 It happens all the time, and the UN apparently only lets in those who won't ask about it. Inner City Press has applied to re-enter to cover the upcoming UNGA Week, watch this site.

July 24, 2023

UN Guterres Conducts Scam  Survey on Sex Abuse As Covers It Up and Banning Press

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, July 21–   While UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres conceals information about sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers, refusing to provide in response to Press requests as even Ban Ki-moon did information about the mounting number of cases, he is conducting a survey. 

This while he has so far refused to respond to this.

 Guterres' official Christian Saunders, who oversaw the physical ouster of Inner City Press from the UN on July 3, 2018 (video here), has sent all UN personnel this message:

OSCSEA launched the UN-wide 2023 survey on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse     

  Dear colleagues,     Since 2016, the Office of the Special Coordinator on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (OSCSEA) conducts an annual system-wide survey on facts and perceptions of United Nations personnel pertaining to issues related to sexual exploitation and abuse.  

  To recall that, in line with the Secretary-General’s bulletin (ST/SGB/2003/13) on “Special measures for protection from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse”,:     ·         “sexual exploitation” is any actual or attempted abuse of a position of vulnerability, differential power, or trust, for sexual purposes, including, but not limited to, profiting monetarily, socially or politically from the sexual exploitation of another.  ·          “sexual abuse” is the actual or threatened physical intrusion of a sexual nature, whether by force or under unequal or coercive conditions.  

  Your contribution would be much helpful to contribute to determining where challenges persist and how to improve the prevention of and response to sexual exploitation and abuse!     Last year, 200 of you, from 64 locations, shared your experience and perspective on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA)."

And Guterres and his cronies covered up UN sexual abuse

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IMF Concerned at Kenya Protests, IMF Spox Tells Inenr City Press While UN Refuses to Answer, Corrupt

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

NYC, July 13 – When the International Monetary Fund held its embargoed media briefing on July 13, 2023, Inner City Press asked spokesperson Julie Kozack about Kenya - the deadly protests and IMF program, and President William Ruto's critique of the IMF - and about crypto and DAOs in the Marshall Islands and elsewhere. Video here.

  IMF Spokesperson Kozack expressed concern about  the protests; she said Kenya would be taken up by the IMF Board next week. In response to the Ruto question, she ticked off IMF actions from Ukraine to climate.By contrast the UN of Antonio Guterres and Melissa Fleming refuses to answer Inner City Press' questions about Kenya, where the Un spends a lot of public money on an office. We'll have more on this.


July 10, 2023

2d Leak About UN Rape in War Office Shows Patten Stealing VIP Treats for Son on Vacation

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

Exclusive, July 3 – UN peacekeepers' rapes of those they are supposed to protect have escalated under current Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

His spokesman Stephane Dujarric refuses to answer Inner City Press questions about it, for example on June 8, 2023, see below.

  Meanwhile the UN's "Sexual Violence on Conflict" office, which does nothing about the UN peacekeepers' sexual abuse of those they are ostensibly protecting, is caught on a scandal triggered by a Pramilla Patten interview. From the case submitted to UN's flaccid internal oversight, among the leaks to Inner City Press has been Patten's internal email about Ukraine, which on June 22, 2023 we put online here.

  Now with the UN in full cover up mode we have more: the internal complaint about Patten, among other things, writing self-serving official letters to UN Resident Coordinators to score VIP airport treatment and UN vehicles for her personal trips and vacations and, in typical UN (Guterres-like) nepotism, for her son. See complaint exclusively published by Inner City Press here.

July 3, 2023

UN Staff Arrested Smuggling Cocaine After UNTSO Van Sex Exposed by Inner City Press

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, June 27 – In 2020 Inner City Press exclusively first published video of UN Security staff having sex in a van in Tel Aviv.

At first the UN denied it, then tried to source it to friendlier media. Now will the same happened with the three UN staff from Fiji arrested trying to bring "liquid cocaine" into Israel from Jordan?

"Israel Police detained three United Nations employees on Sunday on suspicion of trying to smuggle liquid cocaine into Israel from Jordan, disguised as a component of perfume-making kits.  Customs officers who inspected luggage belonging to the detainees, who work in Syria near the border with Israel, were suspicious about the kits, which the travelers described as used for making perfumes.  The kits, which contained multiple bottles with liquids, prompted a police sniffing dog to react in a way that substantiated the suspicions, according to a joint statement from police and the Tax Authority."

  On June 27, Farhan Haq dodged in the briefing room, and refused all of Inner City Press' written questions.

  With Inner City Press still banned from the UN by Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in the face of this application to enter and cover UNGA 2023 - Inner City Press is first reporting two June 21 decisions the UN's corrupt "justice" system, from which Inner City Press is banned even from virtual coverage, because it refused an unlawful order to destroy evidence of UN abuse:

From the Millan ruling: "131. As to the second issue, Mr. Cunillera, who drove the car in the same event of the Applicant, was disciplined only by a written censure, with loss of two steps and deferment, for a period of two years of eligibility for salary increment, in accordance with staff rule 10.2(a)(i), (ii) and (iii). 

 132. The Tribunal is of the view that the imposition on Mr. Cunillera of a less severe sanction is justified by the fact that his role in the events was fundamentally different; the United Nations vehicle was not assigned to him and in his care when F01 was allowed to travel in it, and Mr. Cunillera tried to stop the event as inappropriate, while the Applicant was, as simply put by the Respondent, the main actor in the affair, as clearly shown in the video-clip."

    "The main actor"?  Wasn't it Antoine,  not Millan?

 From the Antoine judgement, which we've put on DocumentCloud here

 "130. As to the second issue, Mr. Cunillera, who drove the car in the same event of the Applicant, was disciplined only by a written censure, with loss of two steps and deferment, for a period of two years of eligibility for salary increment, in accordance with staff rule 10.2(a)(i), (ii) and (iii).   131. The Tribunal is of the view that the imposition on Mr. Cunillera of a less severe  sanction is justified by the fact that his role in the events was fundamentally different; the United Nations vehicle was not assigned to him and in his care when F01 was allowed to travel in it, and Mr. Cunillera tried to stop the event as inappropriate, while the Applicant was, as simply put by the Respondent, the main actor in the affair, as clearly shown in the video-clip."

 So in the UNTSO cases the UN Tribunal just copy and pasted the section of the judgement pronouncing Antoine as the main actor into Millan's judgement saying HE was the main actor.  Sloppy work - but typical of the rot and cover up under Guterres.   Inner City Press has applied to re-enter to ask.

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June 26, 2023

Amid UN Press Freedom Claims Application by Inner City Press to Enter Will Be Litmus Test

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, June 19 –  On World Press Freedom Day, the United Nations of Antonio Guterres claimed to be in support of journalists being able to do their work without hinderance.

  But UN Global Communications chief Melissa Fleming put out a video of Guterres equating what he (and she) characterize as disinformation as the threat to press freedom, Guterres has banned Inner City Press from entering the UN since 2018, when it exposed the omission of links to bribery firm CEFC China Energy from his financial disclosure. 

On June 19, 2023, Inner City Press submitted an application to cover the UN General Assembly, letter here.

 Law firm Quinn Emanuel, on a pro bono basis, wrote to Fleming and the UN Correspondents Association (with state media of China on its board of directors) seeking a dialogue to reinstate Inner City Press.

There has been no answer to an appeal to Guterres head of security Gilles Michaud.   

But now, the application. Watch this site.

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June 19, 2023

As UN Guterres Bans Press He Bloviates About Disinformation Launching Empty Policy Briefs

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, June 12 –  On World Press Freedom Day, the United Nations of Antonio Guterres and Melissa Fleming was more hypocritical than usual.  

  While UN Global Communications chief  Fleming put out a video of Guterres equating what he (and she) characterize as disinformation as the threat to press freedom, Guterres has banned Inner City Press from entering the UN since 2018, when it exposed the omission of links to bribery firm CEFC China Energy from his financial disclosure. 

On June 12, Guterres while plopped down in the propagandist-only UN Press Briefing Room "launched" his proposal to blue wash dictators' censorship efforts as a war on disinformation - which he defines as anything critical of the UN or, even more so, of him. Video with commentary here. His Melissa Fleming carries it out.

  Fleming, who has refused to answer a polite pro bono letter from the Quinn Emanuel law firm seeking a dialogue to end her ban of Inner City Press, was intoning, as echoed by another paid UN system communications staffer, "We're creating at the ⁦ UN ⁩ a central capacity to monitor and …rapidly react when mis- and dis information and hate speech threaten not just our people, our operations, but also the issues and causes we're working on," -Melissa Fleming."

  What is the accountability for this "central capacity" that, without explaining or answering, has the Press roughed up and banned?

 Law firm Quinn Emanuel, on a pro bono basis, wrote to Fleming and the UN Correspondents Association (with state media of China on its board of directors) seeking a dialogue to reinstate Inner City Press.

There has been no answer, nor to an appeal to Guterres head of security Gilles Michaud.   

 Still, ill-informed media run the Guterres video without commentary. Disinformation, indeed.

June 12, 2023

UN Guterres Covers Up Rapes in DRC and Haiti While Bragging of Sending 11 Tanzanian Home

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, June 9 – UN peacekeepers' rapes of those they are supposed to protect have escalated under current Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

His spokesman Stephane Dujarric refuses to answer Press questions about it, for example on June 8:

"June 8-1: Immediately provide all if-asked information on the new UN sex abused cases cynically data dumped June 7 at 12:02 pm, involving UN "peacekeepers" from South Africa, Malawi and Guatemala including child rape, what if anything has been done for the victims - and why while Ban Ki-moon provided Press with such info, each of you has refused, UN rape after UN rape."

   While leaving that unanswered, on June 9 Dujarric among other self-congratulatory press releases said "an update from our Peacekeeping Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) based in Bangui, which announced the decision by the Secretariat to repatriate a unit of 60 Tanzanian military personnel, who were deployed at a temporary operating base in the western part of the country. This follows serious allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against these peacekeepers." 

But what about the many other charges, on which Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refuse to answer?

Those present at the June 9 UN noon briefing did not ask a single question about the UN rapes. Later one of Dujarric's state media cronies wrote up a puff piece to make the UN look good.

 But these are crimes, a systematic trafficking of sex offenders to failed states where they continue their abuse - and Guterres is at the top of the pyramid, complicit. 

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June 5, 2023

After Inner City Press Scoop on UNTSO Sex in UN Van Haq Lies To AFP About Accountability

By Matthew Russell Lee, Video, Patreon Doc
Germany - Honduras - UN Q - Tel Aviv Austria

UN GATE, June 1 – The United Nations claims to have a zero tolerance for sexual exploitation by its staff and peacekeepers, but routinely covers up their abuses including the rape of children, withholding basic information which was provided to the Press under Ban Ki-moon but not now under Antonio Guterres. 

  Inner City Press previously expanded its exclusive reporting into UNTSO's scandal of public sex in the UN van, with information from UN whistleblowers in Jerusalem and New York: "the men in the UNTSO car have been charged with transporting a passenger who was not authorized and also for not co-operating with the investigation."

On April 14, 2022, hearing from whistleblowers again, Inner City Press emailed Guterres et al., "On deadline, on the UNTSO public sex video Inner City Press first published and each of you dissembled about, now state the UN employment and payment status of each accused staffer.,"

  Dujarric did not answer, but in the noon briefing said two have been "separated" and one remains on the payroll. He would not say which one, calling it confidential. He laundered it through friendly Al Jazeera, which didn't even remember what country it happened in (even though it was Israel).

Jump cut to June 1, 2023 when Agence France Presse tried to help save the UN's bacon, "fact checking" that the video, that typically it refused to credit, was NOT in Africa. And so it's OK? Haq, misidentified by AFP "Fact Check" as Aziz, lied like Dujarric that there had been accountability. This is the scam "Verify" of Melissa Fleming - lie to protect the UN, and pretend it is fact checking. We'll have more on this.

Alongside the cover-up by Antonio Guterres and his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming, who refuse Inner City Press' written questions and ban it from entering to ask in-person, as state media and retirees are allowed to do (but don't ask about this), delay under UN due process rules for sex abusers but not journalists:

"The Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Management may seek  further information from any relevant source. Any new additional information  received by the Assistant Secretary-General must be provided to the staff member  for a further response. The staff member shall be given two weeks to respond to  such additional information. The staff member may request, in writing, additional  time to respond."

 Meanwhile, the Press which asks about this thrown out without due process, and no response even to polite letter from Quinn Emanuel law firm, video here. We'll have more on all this.

May 29, 2023

UN Rot Typified by Volker Turk Silent on Uighurs As He Shills for Corporate Donations

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC-Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN NY Mag

UN GATE, May 24 – The United Nations has hit a new low, after its now-gone human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet withheld her report on Xinjiang until the very hour she left, after whitewashing China's genocide against the Uighurs for her whole term.

 To replace Bachelet, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres tapped his crony, Volker Turk formerly of UNHCR then a Guterres promoter. (Inner City Press back on July 2 predicted this pro-China move, here).

On May 24, 2023 Turk gave a speech asking for corporate donations to his Office - or, if he is like his Boss Guterres, to himself - by giving examples of what he'd do with it. The words "Uighur" or "Xinjiang" were of course nowhere in the pitch. The lone mention of China was about "civic space;" more space was devoted to the US. And Qatar? Like Cameroon and Haiti, not mentioned. The crony doesn't fall far from the tree.

In November 2022, Volker Turk was entirely silence on Qatar and human rights, including the 7000 migrant workers they killed building stadia for the FIFA World Cup. Some human rights commissioner.

This comes after Qatar welcomed Volker Turk's appointment (photo here), and paid for a large room at the UN in Geneva.

Qatar already bought Antonio Guterres in New York, where its state media Al Jazeera - now with its UN correspondents and alumni singing for the supper defending the corrupt World Cup - worked with Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric to get Inner City Press thrown out, here

On human rights, Inner City Press previously asked Volker Turk about the slaughter in Cameroon of Anglophones by the army of Paul Biya - and he'd never heard of it. Story here.

 When Inner City Press published video (here) of Turk's answers about Gramsci, Inner City Press was then blocked from the UN's web site. So he is a cover up man and a censor. Anyone who had put up with Guterres reign of censorship and corruption has no human rights credibility or chops.


To UN Stakeout Ghana Invites Inner City Press But It Is Banned By SG Guterres & Dujarric

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, May 24 –    The UN Security Council among its Permanent members has no African country. But there are three elected members.

One of them, Ghana, on May 24 announced that with the other two (Mozambique and Gabon) it will hold a press stakeout "to highlight Africa's approach towards convergence by the Council leading to negotiations on the financing of AU-led Peace Support Operations."

   The stakeout will be inside the UN - from which Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres and his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming ban Inner City Press, after its questions about Guterres' finances.

Inner City Press has appealed, but UN Security chief Gilles Michaud hasn't deigned to answer. So how can Inner City Press attend?

 Here is the invite, and to whom and how it was sent:  From: Solomon Korbieh <skorbieh@yahoo.com>

Date: Wed, May 24, 2023 at 6:44 PM Subject: MEDIA STAKEOUT BY GABON, GHANA AND MOZAMBIQUE ON 25TH MAY(TOMORROW), 2023 AT 10.45AM

To: Stephane Dujarric <dujarric@un.org>, Farhan Haq <haqf@un.org>, melissa.fleming@un.org <melissa.fleming@un.org>, AG <ag@un.org>, Marcia Soares Pinto <soarespinto@un.org>, David Kaye <dkaye@law.uci.edu>, Amina Mohammed <amina.mohammed@un.org>, Janos Tisovszky <tisovszky@un.org>, Eihab Omaish <omaish@un.org>, Tal Mekel <mekel@un.org>, Keishamaza Rukikaire <rukikaire@un.org>, seda.pumpyanskaya@un.org <seda.pumpyanskaya@un.org>, corbeta@un.org <corbeta@un.org>, Eri Kaneko <kaneko@un.org>, achim.steiner@undp.org <achim.steiner@undp.org>, abaza@un.org <abaza@un.org>, opga@un.org <opga@un.org>, Brenden Varma <varmab@un.org>, Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez <sotonino@un.org>, MALU <malu@un.org>, Monica Grayley <Grayley@un.org>, tremblay@un.org <tremblay@un.org>, Paulina Kubiak <kubiakp@un.org>, courtenay.rattray@un.org <courtenay.rattray@un.org>, awada@un.org <awada@un.org>, siwen.qian@un.org <siwen.qian@un.org>, coutrix@un.org <coutrix@un.org>, Matthew R. Lee

Cc: funca, ghanaperm@aol.com <ghanaperm@aol.com>, info@ghanamissionun.org <info@ghanamissionun.org>, Felix Boateng <felix.boateng@mfa.gov.gh>, Bismark Anyanah <bismarkanyanah@yahoo.com>  

Dear Mr. Dujarric,  This is to inform you that Gabon, Ghana and Mozambique (A3)  would have a MEDIA STAKEOUT tomorrow, 25th May 2023 at 10.45 am at the Security Council Press Area.  

As you may be aware, the Security Council is scheduled to have a briefing on the Secretary-General's Report on Financing of African Union Peace Support Operations (AUPSO) at 11.00 am. The media stakeout by the A3 seeks to highlight Africa's approach towards convergence by the Council leading to negotiations on the financing of AU-led Peace Support Operations.

 Best regards.

 Solomon Korbieh Minister Plenipotentiary/Spokesperson Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations 19 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017 

  On Thursday, 3 November 2022 at 11:52:37 GMT-4, Matthew R. Lee  wrote:   Still banned from UN, for being roughed up on 3 July 2018 while covering the UN Budget Committee meetings I am entitled to cover under MALU Access Guidelines and as applied to all other non resident correspondents). Why is Inner City Press, despite the Quinn Emanual law firm's pro bono letter to Melissa Fleming more than a year ago, still banned from entering to ask these questions?   These written question are posed and responses requested pursuant to the until-now broken commitment the the UN will "continue to answer e-mailed questions from Mr Lee" InnerCityPress: here
May 22, 2023

UN Fraudster Cary Yan Gets 42 Months As Judge Notes He Bribed Francis Lorenzo

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book

SDNY / UN GATE, May 16 – Chinese businessman and fraudster Cary Yan was the subject of a Federal indictment unsealed on September 2, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.   

Using a UN-affiliated non-governmental organization, Yan paid bribes in New York to officers of the Marshall Islands and others. Indictment on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here.

  In 2018, Inner City Press from inside the UN reported on Cary Yan's suspicious activities, (including video here, and bribe-bought promotion by UNCA here) as it was reporting on the parallel UN bribery by Patrick Ho of Ye Jianming's NGO CEFC China Energy.

On December 1, 2022, Yan and his co-defendant pled guilty. Inner City Press was there - thread:

[Plea agreement on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here]

Guilty plea is accepted by the judge. Sentencing set for late Feb but could be earlier since parents' visa running out.

On March 9, Yan asked to delay his sentencing from March 28 to May 16.

On March 10, it was granted: "Set/Reset Hearings as to Cary Yan: Sentencing set for 5/16/2023 at 11:00 AM before Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald."

Just before sentencing, Yan in a redacted sentencing submission asked for time served. The US says it wants 57 months.

It got 42 months - with 37 of them already served. Inner City Press was there, thread here:

Now at sentencing of UN-linked fraudster Cary Yan. He wants time served. "The Founder" and enablers still in UN have not been prosecuted

Defense: Cary Yan went to college in Beijing and wants to advise NGOs. He has given a lot of money. Fraud as "anti poverty work" - very UN.

 Defense: The Bureau of Prisons or US Marshals lost Cary Yan's manuscript. [What, could it be another expose or how-to manual of corruption in the UN of  Antonio Guterres , pay to play?]

Defense: He wanted to help people in the Marshall Islands

 Judge: Didn't Mr Yan bribe Mr Lorenzo? [That's Francis Lorenzo, who's back in the UN, he's in a book Inner City Press is shepherding toward publication. UN corruption is expanding]

 Yan's lawyer: US wants 57 months, Probation wants 42. But Cary merits less - time served. The Roger Ng case was different. [What of Ng Lap Seng, who bought UN PGA , whose office under  Csaba Korosi still bans Inner City Press from his UN Civil Society Town Halls

 AUSA: WOGC (scam  NGO Inner City Press exposed before  Antonio Guterres  banned the Press from the UN) was all about money. 57 months wouldn't even be the highest FCPA sentence this year.

Judge has taken a break. Here's Cary Yan in the UN, video here

Cary Yan has less hair now, two lawyers and interpreter. Where's the blonde go? Judge is back. Yan [in Chinese] I will be honest

 Judge: Mr Yan is not a public official... The Deputy Ambassador of the Dominican Republic Francis Lorenzo-- AUSA: We gave Lorenzo a 5K1 [cooperator's] letter. [Ng Lap Seng got 48 months.  UN PGA  John Ashe died under his own barbell]

Judge: Yan has had 4 heart surguries. He will be deported. I sentence him to 42 months.

[37 already served, so five more at MDC then deportation - to Marshal Islands, whose passport he bought? And can return to the US?]

More detail on Substack here

On February 2, for her February 16 sentencing, Zhou asked for time served.

On February 9, the US also asked for time served for Zhou - in a sentencing submission that references Francis Lorenzo, already free and back in the UN, and "the Founder," whom Inner City Press exposed before being thrown out of the UN and whom the US has never charged.

On February 15, Zhou got just that: time served. "JUDGMENT IN A CRIMINAL CASE as to Gina Zhou (2). The defendant pleaded guilty to count One. Counts 2-5 are dismissed on the motion of the United States. IMPRISONMENT: Time served. The defendant should receive full credit for the time served since her arrest in Thailand on November 16, 2020. ASSESSMENT: $100.00 due immediately. (Signed by Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald on 2/16/2023)."

After Inner City Press' initial report, Yan retained Jonathan Bolz, who also represented Patrick Ho. Word is Yan was extradited in from Thailand and will be presented before the assigned District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, who also presided over sentencing to 15 years of UN rapist Karim Elkorany.

On September 2, 2022, after finding the just-unsealed Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) indictment of Yan and Gina Zhou in the docket at the SDNY court which it now covers, still banned from the UN, Inner City Press emailed Guterres, his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric, Eri Kaneko and Melissa Fleming questions about the UN's role in the bribery by the NGOs, including the United Nations International Organization for Sustainable Development and the World Organization of Governance and  Competitiveness, WOGC. No answer.

May 15, 2023

UN Western Sahara Sex Scandal Ripped Off by Colum Lynch from Inner City Press 2021 Scoop

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, May 11 – How corrupt are United Nations officials and the correspondents who cover (up for) them today? 

 On May 9, a long-time UN insider named Colum Lynch, who has bounced from the Washington Post to Foreign Policy and beyond, ran a belatedly rip-off piece about the UN Mission in Western Sahara, based off "a political problem... cited in news reports about the disputed territory."  

  While Lynch, as is his M.O., refused to name or credit the "news reports," he named and used the problem: "a Russian national named Alexander Ivanko, was involved in a romantic relationship with a local Moroccan woman."  

 There is a major problem: Inner City Press in 2021 first published this information, and has remained banned by the UN until this day. For example, Inner City Press in December 2021 published, available then as now in Google:

"Inner City Press has been contacted by UN whistleblowers outraged at what they say is already a pro-Morocco scandal at MINURO under - literally - Ivanko. They tell Inner City Press, none of whose questions the UN will answer even to confirm or deny, that Ivanko has struck up a predatory relationship with a Moroccan woman who was recruited into MINURSO by now-rewarded predator Colin Stewart.

Inner City Press on the morning of December 20 put this question and another - about UNRWA and Afghanistan - to all UN spokespeople... Inner City Press has the victim's name but, as it does in the current US v. Ghislaine Maxwell case on which Guterres refuses to answer why he had a representative, Amir Dossal, on Maxwell's Terramar project board, it is not publish the name - in the case of the UN, for now). The whistleblowers also telling recount that given his lack of commitment to decolonization, Guterres told Grandi - subject now of an Afghanistan and UNRWA scoop - to keep UNHCR's Western Sahara work "sleeping" for now. Forever, as things stand. The UN under Guterres is less and less accountable, less and less transparent."

  Its press corpse, too. Colum Lynch has previously ripped off Inner City Press, while it was still in the UN.

And when UNSG Antonio Guterres and his spokesman Stephane Dujarric - quoted as "Mister" by Lynch - had Inner City Press roughed up and thrown out of the UN, it was covered by the Columbia Journalism Review and The Independent, for example, but not a word from Lynch or Foreign Policy or his other employers. 

 Lynch also lets off the hook and covers up for many others in (and left out) of this story. But that's a story for another day. We cover the SDNY now, most recently Carroll v. Trump (booklet here) - but this type of journalistic theft and collusion cannot and will not go unremarked.

Inner City Press has appealed to re-enter the UN and will not rest. Watch this site. 

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May 8, 2023

On World Press Freedom Day UN Guterres Lies while Banning Independent Media Exposing Him

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, May 3 –  On World Press Freedom Day, the United Nations of Antonio Guterres is more hypocritical than usual.  

  While UN Global Communications chief Melissa Fleming put out a video of Guterres equating what he (and she) characterize as disinformation as the threat to press freedom, Guterres has banned Inner City Press from entering the UN since 2018, when it exposed the omission of links to bribery firm CEFC China Energy from his financial disclosure. 

 Law firm Quinn Emanuel, on a pro bono basis, wrote to Fleming and the UN Correspondents Association (with state media of China on its board of directors) seeking a dialogue to reinstate Inner City Press.

There has been no answer, nor to an appeal to Guterres head of security Gilles Michaud.   

 Still, ill-informed media run the Guterres video without commentary. Disinformation, indeed. 

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May 1, 2023

UN Daniela Bas Hired Relatives & Moonlighted as Life Coach Staff Tell Banned Inner City Press

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, April 28 – In the UN of Antonio Guterres, there is scandal after scandal, each one covered up and/or ignored by the state media and scribes they let in, while banning the Press.

From the e-mail bag this week, while Spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refused all of Inner City Press' questions:

Dear Matthew Russell Lee: Tell the Daniela Bas story. This director of social affairs got fired from DESA for corruption and is running a huge consultancy firm now. The UN didn't bother to explain to anyone why she was fired.

We know very little. Over the weekend we were told that she was not coming in again (but she was in the office on Friday) and that John Wilmoth will be the acting director.

She was known to be very corrupt. She appointed her brother and her sister in law's company to do diversity training at the UN. She was accused of racism. She tried to get in people that were her friends and family and not qualified. She made statements about no-one being able to fire her because she is in a wheelchair.

In the end, she was apparently fired because she took paid contracts, in addition to her job, to do life coaching through an NGO.  She now runs a company where she prides herself on her history with the UN. Proudly announcing that she 'was a senior director' at DESA.

Despite the fact that she should have left with her tail between her legs, she walks proud and tall. The UN has not said a word to any of the staff. Nothing. Zilch. Her staff were left in the dark, stunned when she left.  Not sure whether you're going to get any more information but many, many, many of us are waiting to see what you print. Good luck."

  Well, the UN despite Dujarric's on camera promise to answer Inner City Press' written questions doesn't. Daneila Bas who smiled answering Inner City Press' questions until it was thrown out did nothing after. But we continue to report. Watch this site.

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April 24, 2023

Guterres Subject to US FISA Warrant As He Serves CCP Like Police Station EDNY Indicted

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, April 17 – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres accommodates and supports not only China but Russia, leaks (allegedly by Jack Teixeira of the Massachusetts Air National Guard) now confirm that even the US Administration knows.

  But there are more than leaks: "some of Guterres’s conversations, the documents indicate, were collected under the FISA law."

 While reporting from inside the UN, Inner City Press exposed Guterres concealing his links to convicted UN bribery firm CEFC China Energy.

  Guterres responded by having Inner City Press roughed up by UN Security and banned ever since.  On April 17, 2023, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric refused Inner City Press' written questions, even as it covered the illegal Chinese government "police station" on East Broadway in Manhattan.

  Guterres SHOULD be subject to a warrant, and not only for surveillance.

 Inner City Press has reported on Guterres' connivance with China (and its convicted bribery arm CEFC China Energy), before Guterres banned it from the UN where his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refuses its written questions on these and other topics. 

 Also exposed is Guterres deputy Amina J. Mohammed, trashing Kenya's Ruto.  Amina Mohammed says that Kenya's president, William Ruto, is "ruthless" and that she "doesn't trust him."

  She was previously exposed as backdating CITES certificates for endangered rosewood from Nigeria and Cameroon to China, and colluded in Guterres' ban on Inner City Press. Now what?

  Inner City Press has appealed its ban, to UN Security boss Gilles Michaud as PGA President Csaba Korosi's spokesperson Paulina Kubiak directed. Still, no answer.

More on Substack here.

April 17, 2023

Guterres Weak on Ukraine as Deputy Biased on Kenya Leaks Show as USUN Allows Press Ban

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, April 13 – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres accommodates and supports not only China but Russia, leaks (allegedly by Jack Teixeira of the Massachusetts Air National Guard) now confirm that even the US Administration knows.

"Guterres emphasized his efforts to improve Russia's ability to export," the leak says, "even if that involves sanctioned Russian entities or individuals... [Guterres is] undermining broader efforts to hold Moscow accountable for its actions in Ukraine."  

But why does the US Administration continue to publicly praise Guterres, and allow him to ban media he doesn't like, as he helps Russia sell its ammonia and China control more and more of the UN? 

 Inner City Press has reported on Guterres' connivance with China (and its convicted bribery arm CEFC China Energy), before Guterres banned it from the UN where his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refuses its written questions on these and other topics. 

 Also exposed is Guterres deputy Amina J. Mohammed, trashing Kenya's Ruto.  Amina Mohammed says that Kenya's president, William Ruto, is "ruthless" and that she "doesn't trust him."

  She was previously exposed as backdating CITES certificates for endangered rosewood from Nigeria and Cameroon to China, and colluded in Guterres' ban on Inner City Press. Now what?

  Inner City Press has appealed its ban, to UN Security boss Gilles Michaud as PGA President Csaba Korosi's spokesperson Paulina Kubiak directed. Still, no answer.

More on Substack here.

April 10, 2023

On UNRWA Corruption Inner City Press Asked UN Now Also Damning ESCWA Leaked Email

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book

UN GATE EXCLUSIVE, April 3 – 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 -

On April 3, 2023, this: "Dear Matthew,   Thank you again for continuing to be supportive of staff in pain and for showing how the UN has truly become the private farm of those who are connected to the SG and his inner circle.  Member States must know about these actions.  Very much similar to these actions are happening at other UN agencies and missions.  OIOS, Ethics offices are only used as tools to help those in power get away with their violations.  Instead of offering to give best practice examples to host governments, the UN is now allowing corrupt governments to proceed with their illegal actions.  Most host governments may be aware of those actions at the UN but keep silent because the UN also stays quiet about their violations.    Please publish this leaked email in the attached document.  This email is from a Chief of HR at ESCWA sent to the ASG for HR Martha Helena Lopez and copied to the Chef de Cabinet of Antonio Guterres, OIOS and the Ethics Office denounces the grave violations, retaliation and improper conduct of the Executive Secretary of ESCWA and yet no action is taken by the Secretary-General to hold her accountable. This is the UN of Antonio Guterres. Instead of holding the ES accountable, the ASG of HR was busy two weeks ago to assist her with her plan to allow a senior staff accused of fraud and sexual harassment of resigning instead of being dismissed."

Here is the letter, freely available on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud here

Previously we wrote, and see below:

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.

 In late March, more: "Dear Matthew,   This time, the case is about ESCWA in Lebanon.  A dirty deal is about to be sealed in NY between two of the top Executives.     At ESCWA, OHRM, OIOS and the Executive Secretary of ESCWA colluded together to facilitate for a Director of Administration at D-1 level charged with sexual harassment and fraud, to stay on special leave with full pay for a year and half to allow him to reach retirement age and submit his resignation closer to retirement.  With the current special post adjustment in Beirut of almost 116 % this Director instead of being dismissed has been compensated by staying at home for two years with an approximate salary of 20,000 USD while enjoying all benefits and entitlements.  The Executive Secretary has traveled earlier this week to UNHQ to seal the deal with Office of Human Resources and to allow a discreet resignation instead of a dismissal.  This is the UN of Antonio Guterres. This is the Accountability Framework for sexual harassment and fraud. This is the justice for survivors of sexual harassment.   Your urgent attention may put an end to these illegal actions."

  Yes, this is the UN of Antonio Guterres, crying out for external accountability.

April 3, 2023

As Washington Targets Wrong Portuguese in UN Guterres Grabs Corrupt UNOPS as Bans Press

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, March 30 – In the UN system a big wig from Portugal is being targeted by the US. But he's the wrong Portuguese to be targeted, and few will say it. 

  Just as Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General who bans from all UN premises the Press which questioned his failure to include his link to UN bribery firm China Energy Fund Committee in his public financial disclosures, through the Gulbenkian Foundation from which he took money, give the UNOPS job to a Portuguese crony, the US guns for IOM. 

 Amy Pope, the deputy director there since 2021, wants the top job, is challenging the re-election of her boss, Director-General António Vitorino.

 Big Boss Tony Guterres doesn't like it.

 But not wanting to fight an Administration who has left him more unaccountable than the bank regulators who coddled Silicon Valley Bank to the end, Guterres has gotten passive-aggressive revenge.

  From his spokesman / censor Stephane Dujarric, who has refused all written questions from Inner City Press despite an on-camera statement that he would answer, this:

"United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Jorge Moreira da Silva of Portugal as Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services. Moreira da Silva was the Minister of Environment, Energy and Spatial Planning of Portugal from 2013 to 2015 and Visiting Full Professor at the Lisbon University.  Previously he was Senior Adviser to the President of Portugal on Science and Environment (2006-2009), Secretary of State for Environment and Spatial Planning (2004-2005),  Secretary of State for Science and Higher Education (2003-2004), and as a Member of the Portuguese Parliament.   Mr. Moreira da Silva graduated from the University of Porto, Portugal, with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering."  

Yes, in Guterres' UN, the engineering of corruption. We'll have more on this.

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March 27, 2023

On Burma Murder Plot With UN Link Htut Wants a Deposition in Myanmar or White Plains

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.

  Burmese sources consulted by Inner City Press wondered aloud if the Thai arms merchant in the Complaint, or allies, might have any role. Inner City Press will keep covering the case, and asking UNSG Antonio Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming, who don't answer even a law firm's pro bono letter, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, about it.


UN Moves from Banning Press in NY to Firing Now Bans Anti-CCP Whistleblower in Geneva

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. 

 Turk did nothing while in New York drawing a big UN (public) salary, when Big Boss Tony Guterres had Inner City Press roughed up and banned from the UN; appeal unacted on. Now he flexes his own totalitarian "muscle" in UNOG. To this has the UN descended. Watch this site.
March 20, 2023

Corrupt UNSG Antonio Guterres Gives Top Job at UNDP to Member of Syria Assad Regime

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...

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March 23, 2023

Human Rights Watch Proud of Bahrain Ban But Colludes in UN Ban of Press Litmus Test Failed

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.

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March 6, 2023

Mozambique as UNSC President Leaves Press Questions Unanswered As Mulls DRC Junket

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.

 Our requests and questions remain; we will publish any responses, and also on non-responses. Watch this site.

February 27, 2023

Year of Ukraine Failure By UN and Guterres Covered Up Now Refugees UNserved

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.

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February 20, 2023

In Corrupt UN of Guterres UNEP Scams Detailed by Whistleblowers to Inner City Press

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.

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February 13, 2023

On UNRWA Corruption Inner City Press Asks UN and Lazzarini With Photo of Car No Answer

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial book - NY Mag

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.

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February 6, 2023

UN Budget Expert Hyassat Loses NY Rape Case By Default As He and UN and USUN No Show

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)

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January 30, 2023

In UN Money Murk DSG Lies on Taliban  After SG Guterres Rebuffed Qatar Murder Q at UNCA

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.

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January 23, 2023

In Corrupt UN of Guterres Libya Post Up for Sale Between UK Adamson and Gluck, Michaud

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:

From: Parfait Onanga-Anyanga
Subject: RE: Complaints against KOVAKEV NIKOLAY
Cc: Najat Rochdi, Kenneth Gluck

January 16, 2023

UNSG Guterres Covers Up UN Child Rape in CAR As Fleming Bans Press & Japan Is Told

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.

On January 10, 2023, the UN data dumped more cases of its sexual abuse, including a child rape in Central African Republic. Photo from UN Conduct and Discipline website here. Inner City Press that day asked, in writing, UN Spokespeople Stephane Dujarric, Farhan Haq, Melissa Fleming - and the Japanese Mission to the UN, as UNSC president - what had been done for the victims. No answer at all, and no one they let in asked. The UN has devolved into a child sex trafficking and abuse conspiracy.

January 9, 2023

Japan as UNSC President Bans Press Questions But Lets In Ghislaine Maxwell Fundraiser

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.

 Our requests and questions remain; we will publish any responses, and also on non-responses. Watch this site.

January 2, 2023

UN Rubber Stamps Corrupt Budget Stealing US Funds as Guterres and Korosi Ban Press

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.  

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