On Guinea
Bissau Inner City Press Asks UN Guterres
Feb 25 No Answer Now Empty Statement
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, March 3 – Inner
City Press on February 25 asked
UN Sec-Gen Antonio Guterres
who along with his son Pedro
has undisclosed business links
throughout the Lusophone world
about the problems in Guinea
Bissau. No answer at all, from
Guterres who has not only banned
Inner City Press from the
UN since 3 July 2018 but even
banned it from his recent
softball Q&A at The
New School.
Inner City
Press asked, in writing and
then online:
"February
25-2: On
Guinea Bissau,
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that Umaro
Embaló has
confirmed that
he’s going to
take the oath
of office this
Thursday as
President of
Guinea-Bissau.
The dispute
between the
National
Electoral
Commission,
which declared
Embaló as the
winner of the
Presidential
elections, and
the Supreme
Court enters
now its third
month without
any clear
signs of
stabilization."
Nothing. No
answer despite
an on camera
faux promise
that despite
ouster the
Press would be
answered, here.
Now on
March 3 from his censor and
spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
this: "The Secretary-General
is following with concern the
institutional crisis in
Guinea-Bissau provoked by the
ongoing electoral
dispute.
The Secretary-General
encourages all stakeholders to
await the decision of the
Supreme Court of Justice,
exercise maximum restraint and
take all necessary measures to
prevent any acts that could
undermine peace and stability
in
Guinea-Bissau.
The Secretary-General
reiterates the United Nations
commitment to continue to
accompany Bissau-Guineans in
their efforts to consolidate
peace, democracy and
development.
Stephane Dujarric, Spokesman
for the
Secretary-General New
York, 3 March 2020." It is
empty, like most of what
Guterres does.
Inner City
Press also asked,
as to Guterres' murky
Lusophone connections:
February 25-5: On
corruption and Angola, on
which you refused to answer
yesterday, what are the
comments and actions if any of
SG Guterres on the Luanda
Leaks exposure of Isabel dos
Santos of Angola, and as Inner
City Press has repeatedly
asked, what are his comments
and action on the repeated
retweeting of Isabel dos
Santos' denials by his close
staffer Aguinaldo Baptista?
After, for example, exposure
of the corrupt urban
development project near
Luanda for which some 3,000
families were driven from
their homes to make way for
the development? And now after
The Portuguese bank EuroBic
has announced it will end its
business relationship with
Africa's richest woman, Isabel
dos Santos.
February 25-6:
Immediately describe the role
of Angola and the dos Santos
family in the campaign of
Antonio Guterres to become
UNSG.
February 25-7: On
UN sexual exploitation and
abuse - alleged - as Inner
City Press requested before 10
am on February 24, immediately
provide all if-asked / further
information immediately
provide the if-asked
information about the new sex
abuse cases data dumped at
9:30 am on Feb 24, involving
UN rape in DRC by Guatemala
"peacekeeper," and abuse by
Senegal in Haiti, and Gabon
and Mauritania in CAR, etc and
as Inner City Press asked in
writing in 2019 without
response, the if-asked
information for the report of
UN rape in Darfur data dumped
to Conduct and Discipline
website on the morning of
January 17 and the "if asked"
information about the two new
cases of sexual exploitation
in CAR by Cameroonian UN
"Police" that were put online
after 5 pm on December 30 (a
day when you refused to answer
7 questions including on
previous UN rapes), and the
(Dec 19) rape case by a UN
Volunteer in DRC in June 2019
- what nationality? What's
been done for the victim(s)?
and the Dec 9 sex abuse cases
in CAR by Gabon, DRC and
Morocco UN "peacekeepers, and
the Dec g about the
Office of the Special Envoy
for the Sahel, and the two
more November 26, 3 pm cases
of sexual exploitation in CAR
by Cameroon troops in
September 2019 (!)
February 25-8: On
SG Guterres' Town Hall in
Geneva, on which you refused
Inner City Press' Dec 20
question, what is your summary
of what SG Guterres said given
that Inner City Press has now
publishing more of it? Please
explain SG Guterres' statement
that interns should not (ever)
be paid, and how this is not
create unfair advantage for
the most affluent?
February 25-9: As
previously and repeated asked,
where has UNSG Antonio
Guterres been for the past
week(s), and how much public
money has he spent? Is he
going directly to and from
Pakistan? Previously from
Addis? Or any stop overs? At
what cost?
February 25-10:
On press freedom and China,
what are the comments and
actions if any of SG Guterres
and separately USG Melissa
Fleming on that a court in
China has sentenced to 10
years in prison a Hong
Kong-based book publisher with
Swedish citizenship, Gui
Minhai?
More
here.
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