On
Syria UN Guterres Has Canned
Statement While Banning Press
Which Asks Of His Failures
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
PFT Q&A
UN GATE, Feb 1 –
Back on
last 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.
Now on
February 1,
2020, from Guterres
who has failed
all year on
Syria as on
Libya and
Yemen and
Cameroon,
this: "The
Secretary-General
is deeply
concerned by
the ongoing
military
escalation in
northwest
Syria and
calls for an
immediate
cessation of
hostilities.
He reaffirms
that attacks
on civilians
and civilian
infrastructure,
including on
healthcare and
educational
facilities,
are
unacceptable.
Military
operations of
all parties,
including
actions
against and by
designated
terrorist
groups, must
respect the
rules and
obligations of
international
humanitarian
law, which
include the
protection of
civilians and
civilian
objects.
The
Secretary-General
reiterates
that there is
no military
solution to
the Syrian
conflict. The
only path to
stability is a
credible and
inclusive
UN-facilitated
political
solution
pursuant to
Security
Council
resolution
2254
(2015).
Stéphane
Dujarric,
Spokesman for
the
Secretary-General
New York, 1
February
2020." All
b.s. Inner
City Press,
now banned
from even
entering the
UN for 578
days and counting
after asking
Guterres about his
failures and
corruption,
will have more
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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