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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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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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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.
by
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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?
by
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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.
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
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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.
***
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
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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
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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.
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
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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 Simăo,
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
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
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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.
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
***
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.
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.
by
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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.
Watch this site
***
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.
***
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.
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.
***
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."
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."
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.
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: hereBy 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.
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.
***
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.
***
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.
***
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.
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.
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