UNITED NATIONS
GATE, February 25
– Inner City Press on July 5
was banned from entering the
UN, the day after it filed a
criminal complaint against
UN Security for physically
removing it from covering
the meeting about the UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres' $6.7 billion
peacekeeping budget, as
witnessed and essentially
cheered on by senior UN
official Christian Saunders,
tearing its reporter's
shirt, painfully and
intentionally twisting his
arm and slamming shut and
damaging his laptop. On
August 17, Guterres' Global
Communicator Alison Smale
issued a letter banning
Inner City Press from the UN
- for life. With no due
process. She and Guterres
have put the UN in the US
Press Freedom Tracker, here.
Smale said,
again, that the UN would
answer Press questions to
the Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric and his Office; Dujarric said the same on
camera.
On February 25
three hours before a Dujarric
briefing with a nearly entirely
entire room to
which he smirked
and said "it
remains unclear,
like
everything
else," Inner City
Press submitted 554 questions
"There are more than 300+
questions UNanswered.
While appreciating
and using what was sent on
January 29 after it was
read out in the briefing
room, no answers on Dec 17
or 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 -
another FIVE days in a
row, even as SG's direct
conflicts of interest and
failure to disclose
emerge, and a newest low.
While
appreciating the
lone partial
response to Question
Feb 8-8, nothing on
Dec 24 or Dec 26 or
Dec 27 or Dec 28, or
January 2, 3 or 4 or
8 or 9 or 10 or 11
or 14 or 15 or 16 or
17 or 18 or 21 or 22
or 23 or 24 or 25 or
28 - that was
FIFTEEN week-days in
a row, apparently
under orders, then a
simple post-facto
answer. Now what? No
answers on January
30 nor 31 nor
February 1 nor 4 nor
5 nor 6 nor 7 nor 11
nor 12 nor 13 nor 14
or 15 nor 18 nor 19
nor 20 nor 21 nor
22. No answers at
all during those
four days of the US
v Ho trial showing
corruption in the UN
says it all. This
ban is just
censorship - and
Inner City Press
must be allowed back
into the noon
briefing to ask its
questions in person
and follow up on
them.
February
25-1: On Chad and
France, on which
your Office has
refused to answer
for three weeks, now
it is alleged that
the rebel group
France bombed is
funded by Qatar.
What is the SG's
comment and action,
including in light
of evidence UN NGO
China Energy Fund
Committee offered
weapons for oil to
Idriss Deby. Again,
what is the SG's
comment and action
on the now second
set of French
airstrikes on
Chad?
February
25-2: On UN
spending, DGACM and
OSSC, please confirm
or deny that
Argentina informed
DGACM is would /
could not pay to fly
UN interpreters
business class to
the upcoming OSSC
meeting there, and
that interpreters
have been cajoled to
"volunteer" to fly
economy by being
given additional
time off, to be paid
for by all member
states. Also, is USG
Pollard flying
economy - or
business class?
Why?
February
25-3: On Cyprus,
conflict and
conflict change,
what is the SG's
comment and action
on that Turkey is
about to start
offshore drilling
with two vessels
around the island of
Cyprus, Turkish
foreign minister
said on Feb.
21. February
25-4: On retaliation
in the UN system,
what is the SG's
comment and action
if any on Francis
Gurry dismissing
WIPO whistleblower
Wei Lei on dubious
grounds? Confirm
SG's receipt of Wei
Lei's letter, and
separately provide
the SG's
comment /
response.
February
25-5: On Senegal and
the the press
freedom the SG is
set to speak about
in Geneva tonight,
what is his comment
and action if any on
speech in Senegal
against media which
reported on trends
in the
election?
State this morning
if and where the
SG's press freedom
speech will be
webcast. AGAIN,
please immediately
explain how it is
legitimate to ban
from enter into the
UN the media that
has been asking
about these and
other questions,
with no hearing or
appeal.
February
22-1: On Cameroon,
what are the SG's
comments and actions
if any on that
Opposition leader
Maurice Kamto will
today be summoned by
a military court on
charges which carry
the death penalty,
as the Cameroonian
authorities
intensify their
post-election
crackdown on
critics, Amnesty
International said
today. Kamto,
the president of the
Cameroon Renaissance
Movement (Mouvement
pour la Renaissance
du Cameroun-MRC) is
the first of a group
of 131 people
arbitrarily arrested
last month and
charged by the
military court with
rebellion, hostility
against the
homeland, incitement
to insurrection,
offence against the
president of the
republic, and
destruction of
public buildings and
goods, to be
summoned by an
investigating judge.
They all face the
death penalty?
February
22-2: On Haiti, what
are the SG's
comments and
actions, if any, on
that a police
officer and two bus
drivers were killed
in the capital’s
Martissant
neighborhood on
Wednesday, bringing
to 12 the number of
confirmed fatalities
from weeks of
sometimes violent
protests demanding
that Haitian
President Jovenel
Moise step down?
Again, what is the
SG's comment and
action on
accountability after
the death toll of UN
driving into a
collective taxi has
hit four? "A traffic
accident involving a
United Nations
armored vehicle
killed four people
and injured nine in
Port-au-Prince on
Saturday...The
vehicle of the
United Nations
Mission for Justice
Support in Haiti
(MINUJUSTH) lost the
use of its brakes
while driving in the
capital and collided
with a collective
taxi — known as a
tap-tap — according
to witnesses"
February
22-3: On Libya and
Chad, what are the
comments and actions
if any of the SG and
separately SRSG
Salame on that
Chadian rebels in
southern city of
Murzuq have accused
the forces loyal to
General Khalifa
Haftar of having
targeted civilians
in their offensive
yesterday?
February
22-4: AGAIN, what is
the SG's response to
US Senator Marco
Rubio's criticism
that he is playing
right into Maduro
plans.. When it
comes to democracy
& human rights
UN increasingly
worthless"?
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