UNITED NATIONS
GATE, July 1
– On July 1, after UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres
lavished
praise on
China's Xi at
the G20, in Hong
Kong protesters
faced off with riot
police, the
anniversary of Hong
Kong’s return to
repressive Chinese
rule. Guterres,
typically, said
nothing. His
campaign slogans
about preventive
diplomacy
have
proven empty,
even as he
tries to
ride the Belt
and Road to a
second term
that would end
whatever's
left of the
UN's credibility.
On
June 6, banned
Inner City
Press asked Guterres
and his spokes- / hachetman
Stephane
Dujarric: "June
6-3: On China,
human rights
and the SG,
what is the
SG's response
to reports
that China has
announced
former Hong
Kong police
chief Andy
Tsang
Wai-hung’s
nomination for
the top post
at the United
Nations
organisation
fighting drug
crimes - Mr
Tsang's
nomination
could also be
controversial
for his
management of
the Occupy
protests,
during which
tear gas was
used on
pro-democracy
demonstrators.
That shone a
spotlight on
government
efforts to
clamp down on
activists in
the former
British
colony, with
the gatherings
of mostly
students
dubbed the
"Umbrella
Movement"
after they
used umbrellas
to shield
themselves
from the
pepper
spray.
Concerns over
the autonomy
of Hong Kong's
judicial
system have
increased, as
the
Beijing-backed
government
seeks an
extradition
bill that
critics say
could be used
to target
dissidents
living in the
city.
That
legislation
may have
helped drive a
record turnout
of more than
180,000 on
Tuesday night
for Hong
Kong's annual
vigil to
remember the
Chinese
military's
crackdown in
Tiananmen
Square. Police
put the number
of attendees
at 37,000. The
nomination is
China’s first
attempt to
fill a top
position at a
major
international
organisation
since it
detained Meng
Hongwei, then
the head of
the global
policing body
Interpol, last
year. It
was understood
UN Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres would
select a
successor in a
few months to
replace the
current
executive
director, Yury
Fedotov of
Russia, who
had been in
office since
2010"?"
More than two
weeks later,
no answer at
all despite
Dujarric's
promise that
there
would be
answers.
Guterres is
entirely
corrupt. And
this: "The
former
commissioner
of police,
Andy Tsang,
said on
Saturday the
level of force
used by police
during the
June 12
protests was
necessary and
restrained.
Tsang said
from what he
saw on live TV
broadcasts,
there was a
level of
violence
caused by
protesters
that was more
serious than
what had been
seen during
the 2014 civil
disobedience
movement, when
he was leading
the police
force.
He said it
would not have
been possible
for the police
to stop the
violent action
if they had
only used tear
gas, but not
rubber bullets
and bean bag
rounds. He
added the
police had
showed
restraint by
only using
force
"passively",
and more
people would
have been hurt
had police not
acted at the
time.
Nearly 80
people were
injured in the
clashes on
June 12."
This
are Guterres'
friends and
candidates.
Guterres is
corrupt.
Inner
City Press on
July 5 was banned
from entering the
UN, the day after it
filed a criminal
complaint against UN
Security for
physically removing
it from covering the
meeting about the UN
Secretary General
Antonio Guterres'
$6.7 billion
peacekeeping budget,
as witnessed and
essentially cheered
on by senior UN
official Christian
Saunders, tearing
its reporter's
shirt, painfully and
intentionally
twisting his arm and
slamming shut and
damaging his laptop.
On August 17,
Guterres' Global
Communicator Alison
Smale issued a
letter banning Inner
City Press from the
UN - for life. With
no due process. She
and Guterres have
put the UN in the US
Press Freedom
Tracker, here.
Smale said,
again, that the UN
would answer Press
questions to the
Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric and his
Office;
Dujarric said
the same on
camera.
On June 6
three
hours before the
UN noon
briefing three
days after
Dujarric when
asked for
Guterres'
comment on Tiananmen
Square 30
years anniversary said
"No, I have no
particular
comment on
that," Vine
video here,
Inner City
Press submitted 906
questions,
including why
it continues
to be
lawlessly banned
from entering
to ask
questions in
person:
"There
are more than
500+
questions
UNanswered.
And Monday
Sept 17,
Tuesday Sept
18, Wed Sept
19 and
Thurs and Fri
Sept 21, that
whole week, no
questions
answered. Nor
Sept 25, nor
28th - nor
October 2 nor
3. While
appreciating
and using what
was belatedly
sent on
May 20
about sexual
exploitation
allegations
and on March
28 in partial
request to
Inner City
Press'
questions
about the UN
bribery
sentence of
Patrick Ho of
CEFC and
CEFC's 2018
attempt to buy
the oil
company of
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which paid the
SG, no answers
on Dec 17 or
18 or 19 or 20
or 21 -
another FIVE
days in a row,
even as SG's
direct
conflicts of
interest and
failure to
disclose
emerge, and a
newest low. No
answers on
January 30 nor
31 nor
February 1 nor
4 nor 5 nor 6
nor 7 nor 11
nor 12 nor 13
nor 14 nor 15
nor 18 nor 19
nor 20 nor 21
nor 22 nor 25
nor 26 nor 27
nor March 1 -
27 (!) And now April 1, 3-30 (one
answer
in the
entire month -
corrupt), and
now May
1-13, 15-17,
21-31,
June
3, many
questions.
No answers at
all during
those four
days of the US
v Ho trial
showing
corruption in
the UN says it
all. This ban
is just
censorship -
and Inner City
Press must be
allowed back
into the noon
briefing to
ask its
questions in
person and
follow up on
them.
June
6-1: On
Cameroon, as
Inner City
Press asked on
the morning of
June 5 (a day
on which the
deputy
spokesman
while not
responding on
Cameroon did
respond, at
least
partially, to
a DC-based
correspondent),
what is the
SG's response,
after
receiving
Biya's golden
statue and
multiple
meetings with
Tommo Monthe
only about his
the
chairmanship
of the UN
Budget
Committee, on
NRC now saying
NRC: "Cameroon
tops the
Norwegian
Refugee
Council’s
annual list of
the world’s
most neglected
displacement
crises
launched
today.
“The
international
community is
asleep at the
wheel when it
comes to the
crisis in
Cameroon.
Brutal
killings,
burned-down
villages and
massive
displacement
have been met
with deafening
silence...
Still there
has been no
major
mediation
efforts, no
large relief
programmes,
minimal media
interest and
too little
pressure on
parties to
stop attacking
civilians. The
annual list of
neglected
displacement
crises is
based on three
criteria: lack
of funding,
lack of media
attention and
political
neglect.
Cameroon
scored high on
all
three"?
June
6-2: On UN
impunity and
having brought
cholera to
Haiti, what is
the SG's
comment and
action for UN
accountability,
if any, now
that a cert
petition has
been filed to
put the UN's
impunity in
Haiti before
the U.S.
Supreme
Court?
June
6-3: On China,
human rights
and the SG,
what is the
SG's response
to reports
that China has
announced
former Hong
Kong police
chief Andy
Tsang
Wai-hung’s
nomination for
the top post
at the United
Nations
organisation
fighting drug
crimes - Mr
Tsang's
nomination
could also be
controversial
for his
management of
the Occupy
protests,
during which
tear gas was
used on
pro-democracy
demonstrators.
That shone a
spotlight on
government
efforts to
clamp down on
activists in
the former
British
colony, with
the gatherings
of mostly
students
dubbed the
"Umbrella
Movement"
after they
used umbrellas
to shield
themselves
from the
pepper
spray.
Concerns over
the autonomy
of Hong Kong's
judicial
system have
increased, as
the
Beijing-backed
government
seeks an
extradition
bill that
critics say
could be used
to target
dissidents
living in the
city.
That
legislation
may have
helped drive a
record turnout
of more than
180,000 on
Tuesday night
for Hong
Kong's annual
vigil to
remember the
Chinese
military's
crackdown in
Tiananmen
Square. Police
put the number
of attendees
at 37,000. The
nomination is
China’s first
attempt to
fill a top
position at a
major
international
organisation
since it
detained Meng
Hongwei, then
the head of
the global
policing body
Interpol, last
year. It
was understood
UN Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres would
select a
successor in a
few months to
replace the
current
executive
director, Yury
Fedotov of
Russia, who
had been in
office since
2010"? No
answers. #DumpGuterres.
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