On
Syria After 4 Abstentions in
UNSC Pompeo Speaks With Turkey
FM While Guterres Censors
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
PFT Q&A
UN GATE, Jan 12 –
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
January 10
in the
UN Security
Council stakeout
from which Guterres
has banned
Inner City
Press for now
for 558
days, the
cross border
aid resolution
passed with
the crossing
cut in half to
two and only for six
month. China,
Russia, the UK
and US all
abstained.
And now on January
12 this from
US State
Department
Spokesperson
Morgan
Ortagus:
"Secretary of
State Michael
R. Pompeo
spoke today
with Turkish
Foreign
Minister
Mevlut
Cavusoglu to
discuss
developments
in the Middle
East.
Secretary
Pompeo
reiterated the
need for NATO
to play a
greater role
in the region
and stressed
the U.S.
commitment to
the
UN-facilitated
peace process
in Syria." And
for Guterres, on
yet another
junket in Lisbon?
Nothing. Totally
corrupt.
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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