| UN Guterres Takes
3 Qs, None on Yemen Much Less
Cameroon, Then Leaves, Failing
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Photos,
Periscope
UNITED NATIONS,
November 10 – When UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres took three media
questions on November 10
before leaving the UN building
and then leaving New York for
a week, none of them were on
Yemen, much less Cameroon.
After the last question - on
robots, for which Guterres
seemed strangely prepared -
there were (gently) shouted
questions on Yemen, and Inner
City Press asked about
Guterres calling Kenya's
Ambassador "unfair," click here
for that. Even on Myanmar,
question two of three,
Guterres' answer showed his
weakness. He is waiting for a
non-binding General Assembly
resolution to ask him to
appoint a Special Envoy,
sometime he could do without
any resolution. The glaring
omission of Yemen from his
opening statement or the three
questions his spokesman Stephane
Dujarric hand-picked shows the
extent to which Guterres is afraid
of Saudi Arabia, which has
imposed a blockade on Yemen
which violates international
law, during a famine. Then
Dujarric canceled the day's
noon press briefing, so no
other questions could be
asked. Neither he or Guterres
less than credible public
schedule listed Guterres' next
stop, out of the building, at
9:15 am. More on that soon. On
October 4, Guterres took five
questions, all of them on
climate change, and his trip
to Antigua and Barbuda. With
the UN for example refusing to
give any estimate of how many
civilians Paul Biya killed
this week in Cameroon,
Guterres' spokesman Stephane
Dujarric gave the first
question to Voice of
America (on
climate change), then AP and
SABC, then an ex-Reuters
reporter who called the US the
"elephant in the region." For
this, Dujarric canceled the
UN's noon briefing on all
other topics, while refusing
to answer the majority of
questions which Inner City
Press submits to him and his
deputy by email. Guterres
cited as a precedent the World
Bank loans to Jordan and
Lebanon. Inner City Press
previously asked him
about these, before he became
responsible for UN censorship
of the Press and cover ups in
Cameroon and elsewhere.
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