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On UN Credibility Press Q to Sachs and Guehenno Goes to PGA Who Cites Good Will As Guterres Censors

By Matthew Russell Lee, CJR Letter PFT Q&A

UNITED NATIONS GATE, September 10 – When current UN official Jeffrey Sachs and former head of UN Peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guehenno appears on September 10 on a panel discussion on "Perspectives on the UN of Today and Tomorrow," Inner City Press went through the rain and asked about the credibility of today's UN under Antonio Guterres, citing the examples of peacekeepers' rapes, no reparations for bringing cholera to Haiti, no content neutral media accreditation and access rules, and cover ups of sexual harassment, from UNAIDS to UNFPA and beyond. Facebook video here, Panel I near end from -24:07 on. Femi Oke of Moderate the Panel - and Al Jazeera - directed the question to outgoing President of the UN General Assembly Miroslav Lajcak, who said "no one can suspect that there is not enough good will." Really? Sachs, a UN official who offered to campaign for Ban Ki-moon and to whom increased UN censorship has been raised, thundered against Trump and Congress. Another panelist, Francisco José Pereira Pinto de Balsemão, former Prime Minister of Portugal and Chairman of the Board of IMPRESA, earlier said that the reforms proposed by Antonio Guterres are not "daring." In fact, Guterres has had Inner City Press roughed up and banned from the UN, apparently for life, for questioning his proposals like the Global Service Delivery Mechanism, for support of the Budget Committee chairman for which Guterres went quiet on the killings by Cameroon of Anglophones, and his spending. Nik Gowing noted that a video by Susana Malcorra showed that leaders don't have to travel three days to meeting. This week, Guterres will be away six days with the pretext of Kofi Annan's funeral in Ghana, with a stop over in Lisbon, his 15th, the costs of which the UN will not disclose when Inner City Press asks in writing. Credibility?


On September 5 hours after in the UN Security Council chamber UK Ambassador Karen Pierce said she supported the morning's meeting about Nicaragua due to refugee flows, across the street from the UN Inner City Press asked her why this logic didn't apply to the confict in the former British Southern Cameroons and the flight of Anglophones from state violence into Nigeria. Periscope video here.

     Pierce replied that a country is less likely to end up on the Security Council's agenda if it is taking some positive steps. But given 36 year Cameroonian head of state Paul Biya's torching of villages, what are his positive steps? A sceptic might point to the natural gas deal he signed with UK-based New Age, which UK Minister Liam Fox bragged around as showing UK companies can still get deals after Brexit.

   Also on the panel on the "Culture of Peace," moderated by Kevin Rudd, was Secretary General Antonio Guterres' head of policy planning Fabrizio Hochschild. When Inner City Press began a question to Hochschild, who had spoken with gruesome examples from Colombia of the need for opposing sides to humanize each other though “dignification,” Rudd cut it off.

Stepping off the crowded elevator at ground level Inner City Press endeavored to ask Hochschild the questions, both Cameroon and whether Guterres and his opaque Global Communicator Alison Smale, purporting to ban Inner City Press from the UN for life without once speaking with it, should engaged in some dignification. He declined to answer -- declined to dignify the question, so to speak -- then said “Ask Steph.”

It was a reference to Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who Smale has twice written would answer Inner City Press' question but who has refused to for a full week.

  This as Inner City Press, already banned from the UN for 64 days amid its questions on Guterres' inaction on Cameroon with the country's ambassador Tommo Monthe heading the UN Budget Committee, has an application pending to cover the UN General Assembly as it has for the past 11 years. Dignification, indeed. We'll have more on this.

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