On
Syria Pompeo Says China and
Russia Have Blood on Their
Hands Like Guterres on
Cameroon
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
PFT Q&A
UN GATE, Dec 21 –
Back on
February 15
the UN's Syria
envoy Geir O.
Pedersen
released a
transcript of
his "on the record" press
breakfast in
Geneva, see below. In
September, UN
Secretary General
Antonio
Guterres has
tried to stay on
track to a
corrupt second
term as SG by
naming a "UN
Board of
Inquiry in
northwest
Syria," to be
led in
its secretive
work by
Nigerian Lt
General
Chikadibia
Obiakor.
On
December
20, 2019 in the
UN Security
Council stakeout
from which Guterres
has banned
Inner City
Press for now
for 536
days, two vetoes were
cast on Syria.
And now on
December 21
this from US
Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo:
"The Russian
Federation’s
and China’s
veto yesterday
of a Security
Council
resolution
that allows
for
humanitarian
aid to reach
millions of
Syrians is
shameful.
The resolution
put forward by
Germany,
Belgium and
Kuwait, and
supported by
the U.S. would
have enabled
life-saving
assistance to
reach at least
four million
Syrians
throughout the
country.
Unfortunately,
the Russian
Federation for
the 14th time,
and China, for
the 8th time,
failed in this
commitment.
Both countries
preferred
instead to
provide cover
and support
for its junior
partner in
Damascus; thus
placing the
lives of
millions of
innocent
civilians in
the balance at
the height of
winter, while
further
threatening
civilians by
supporting the
continued
Assad regime
and Russian
military
offensive on
Idlib.
To Russia and
China, who
have chosen to
make a
political
statement by
opposing this
resolution,
you have blood
on your hands." As to
UNSG Guterres,
he has blood
on his hands
in Cameroon.
Inner City
Press will
continue on
this.
On
October 31,
Guterres while
refusing for
the 11th
day to
answer on UN
rapes, and
Inner
City Press'
questions
from the SDNY
about Turkish
state
bank sanctions
buster
Halkbank, said
nothing about
either while
physically
in Syria -
traveling, it
seems, on the
El Chapo money
he bragged
about
receiving from
Honduras. Then from the US,
an actual read
out, of the
type corrupt
Guterres
unlike even
Ban Ki-moon
doesn't give
while claiming
the public
should have
any confidence
in him: "The
following is
attributable
to
Spokesperson
Morgan
Ortagus:
Secretary of
State Michael
R. Pompeo
spoke
yesterday with
Turkish
Foreign
Minister
Mevlut
Cavusoglu.
Secretary
Pompeo
reaffirmed the
U.S.
commitment to
our bilateral
relationship
and, in
particular,
they discussed
the importance
of the October
17
U.S.-Turkish
Joint
Statement.
The Secretary
noted our
position
requiring that
the Turkish
military, the
Turkish-supported
Syrian
Opposition
forces, and
the withdrawal
of YPG forces
be in
accordance
with the
statement
regarding the
safe
zone.
The Secretary
emphasized the
need for all
parties to
adhere to the
spirit and
letter of the
statement in
order to
address our
mutual
interests and
concerns in
Syria."
Meanwhile,
the UN won't
even say if
Guterres was told
before or after Turkey's
move on the
Kurds in Syria.
The UN, or at
least
Guterres, is
corrupt - and
of their censorship
of Press there
is no doubt.
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