On
Syria UN Guterres Bloviates
From Location UNdisclosed No
Answers On Cameroon or
Honduras
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 538
days, two vetoes were
cast on Syria.
And now on
December 23,
belatedly this
from Guterres
with location
and spending
undisclosed: "The
Secretary-General
is deeply
concerned
about the
military
escalation in
northwest
Syria and
calls for an
immediate
cessation of
hostilities.
The
Secretary-General
is alarmed by
the scale of
the military
operation and
reported
attacks on
evacuation
routes as
civilians try
to flee north
to safety. The
Secretary-General
reminds all
parties of
their
obligations to
protect
civilians and
ensure freedom
of
movement.
The recent
military
escalation has
resulted in
dozens of
civilian
casualties and
the
displacement
of at least
80,000
civilians,
including
30,000 in the
last week
alone.
Sustained,
unimpeded and
safe
humanitarian
access to
civilians,
including
through the
cross-border
modality, must
be guaranteed
in order to
allow the
United Nations
and its
humanitarian
partners to
continue to
carry out
their critical
work in
northern
Syria.
The
Secretary-General
reiterates
that there is
no military
solution to
the Syrian
conflict. The
only credible
solution is a
UN-facilitated
political
process
pursuant to
Security
Council
resolution
2254
(2015).
Stéphane
Dujarric,
Spokesman for
the
Secretary-General
New York, 23
December."
Guterres 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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