On
Afghanistan Empty UN Guterres
Statement on Logar Attack As He
Bans Press 1035th Day
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
PFT, Scope
UN GATE, May 2 –
Amid UN Antonio Guterres'
empty statements of concern on
Afghanistan while he bans and
censors the Press now 1035
days, refusing to answer on UN
rapes including there, on May
2, this: "The
Secretary-General condemns the
suicide attack in Puli-e-Alam,
Logar Province, Afghanistan,
on 30 April, which killed and
injured many civilians and
caused significant damage to
civilian premises, including a
hospital. The
Secretary-General expresses
his deep condolences to the
bereaved families and to the
Government and people of
Afghanistan. He hopes that the
observation of the holy month
of Ramadan, a time for
contemplation and compassion,
will be an occasion to reflect
on those who have been
affected by the prolonged
conflict in the country and to
come together in renewed
efforts toward peace.
Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman
for the
Secretary-General New
York, 1 May 2021."
These
robo-comments from a Secretary
General who has failed on
conflict after conflict, and
made several conflicts worse,
such as in Cameroon. Now he
tries to steal five more years
to fail and sell out the UN,
blocking all opposition and
refusing even a debate, in the
run up to a ghoulish one-man
"debate" on May 7.
#DumpGuterres.
Also from
Guterres' UN, on August 30,
2019 this: the
UN issued a
denial of
accreditation
with no
reasoning
other than
that
accreditation
had previously
been revoked:
"From:
malu at UN
Date: Fri, Aug
30, 2019 at
4:23 PM
Subject: U.N.
eAccreditation
request for
Matthew Lee
Ref # M5413398
has been
declined
To: Inner City
Press:
Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City
Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018."
This is
Kafka-esque,
and corrupt.
We will have
more, much
more, on this.
Inner City
Press banned
from the UN now 1035 days
after 10 years of coverage, as
it reports on Guterres'
conflicts
of interest for example
on China Energy Fund Committee
and on Cameroon
Looking
back, Khalilzad during as his
time as US Ambassador was
always accessible. Inner City
Press spoke with him many
times during the late night
budget meetings of example the
type Guterres and his
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
had Inner City Press roughed
up for covering on 3
July 2018. Here was from 21
December 2007: "Ban's
bodyguards loitered by the
Vienna cafe, standing at the
ready. The vacuum cleaners
began in Conference Room 5.
There was no turning back.
Down the hall came the
American flotilla: Permanent
Representative Zalmay
Khalilzad, Ambassadors
Alejandro Wolff and Mark
Wallace, accompanied by
Controller Warren Sach and the
Secretary of the Fifth
Committee. In the corner of
Conference Room 3 they
pow-wowed, as other delegates
tried to get in. They
discussed the U.S. political
ramifications of various ways
of voting on the budget. Leave
it to the experts, Khalilzad
said. But as written, we
cannot vote for the budget, he
told Inner City Press, as he
Googled past midnight."
Compare that to today, where
for covering the budget
meetings from the same
(expensively renovated) Vienna
Cafe, Guterres has you assaulted
- a crime scene - then
imposes a lifetime
ban. The UN is in
decline, even decay.
Four days after UN Security
officers led by UN Lieutenant
Ronald E. Dobbins pushed Inner
City Press' reporter out of
the UN during a speech by
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres, on June 26 Guterres
envoy to Afghanistan Tadamichi
Yamomoto came to the Security
Council stakeout to take
questions. But of the entire
UN press corps, only Inner
City Press was there.
Guterres' deputy spokesman
Farhan Haq who had run out on
Inner City Press' questions
about the ouster the day
before told Yamamoto
leadingly, gesturing at the
UNTV microphone, "It's up to
you." Inner City Press
encouraged Yamamoto and he
came over. Periscope video here. Since then, banned
by corrupt Guterres.
#DumpGuterres
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