On
Colombia UN Guterres Who
Censors Press Issues Empty
Statement Shooting At Prez'
Plane
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
PFT Q&A
UN GATE, June 26
–
Colombia was presented as one
of the only successes in the
four and a half desultory
years Antonio Guterres has
helmed the UN, censoring Inner
City Press to conceal his
links to UN bribery by CEFC
China Energy. While banning
Inner City Press for the
1090th day and refusing to
answer its questions about
Coronavirus, UNsexploitation
and Ghislaine Maxwell and lack
of transparency, Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric on
June 26 issued this: "The
Secretary-General condemns the
attack on 25 June against a
helicopter carrying the
President of Colombia and
other officials, which was
fired on as it landed in the
city of Cúcuta, in the
northeast of the
country.
The Secretary-General is
relieved that the aircraft
landed safely and that there
were no injuries or
fatalities. He stands in
solidarity with the Government
and people of
Colombia.
Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman
for the
Secretary-General
New York, 26 June 2021."
Guterres, meanwhile, is almost
certainly set to visit his
bank account if not others in
Lisbon - there is no
transparency, and the Press
that asks is banned.
After
its
reporting on
the United
Nations as a
resident
correspondent
for a decade,
exposing war
crimes and UN
scandals from
Sri Lanka to
Yemen to
Cameroon, UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres had
Inner City
Press roughly
ousted and
banned from
the UN since 3
July 2018.
On 24 August
2019 Inner
City Press
applied
to
Guterres and
his new
Communications
and media
accreditation
chief Melissa
Fleming to be
admitted like
hundreds of
others to
cover the
upcoming UN
General
Assembly.
After
receiving from
Guterres'
Security chief
Gilles Michaud
an
ill-informed
response
passing the
buck to the
Department now
run by
Fleming, past
4 pm on
Friday, August
30 the UN
issued a
denial of
accreditation
with no
reasoning
other than
that
accreditation
had previously
been revoked:
"From:
malu
<malu@un.org>
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was withdrawn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.
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