UNITED NATIONS
GATE, May 30
– 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 May 30
more than two
hours before the
UN noon
briefing at which deputy
Farhan Haq
data dumped UN
rape
statistics and
not one of the
correspondents
allowed in
asked a single
questions
about them, cover up
complete,
Inner City
Press submitted
881
questions,
including why
it continues
to be
lawlessly banned
from entering
to ask
questions in
person:
"There
are more than
500+
questions
UNanswered.
And Monday
Sept 17,
Tuesday Sept
18, Wed Sept
19 and
Thurs and Fri
Sept 21, that
whole week, no
questions
answered. Nor
Sept 25, nor
28th - nor
October 2 nor
3. While
appreciating
and using what
was belatedly
sent on
May 20
about sexual
exploitation
allegations
and on March
28 in partial
request to
Inner City
Press'
questions
about the UN
bribery
sentence of
Patrick Ho of
CEFC and
CEFC's 2018
attempt to buy
the oil
company of
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which paid the
SG, 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. 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 nor 15
nor 18 nor 19
nor 20 nor 21
nor 22 nor 25
nor 26 nor 27
nor March 1 -
27 (!) And now April 1, 3-30 (one
answer
in the
entire month -
corrupt), and
now May
1-13, 15-17,
21-29,
many
questions.
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.
May
30-1: On
Thailand, what
is the SG's
comment and
action if any
on that
unidentified
assailants
have on
several
occasions,
including
twice in May
2019, attacked
Anurak “Ford”
Jeantawanich
and Ekachai
Hongkangwan in
and around
Bangkok. In
almost all of
these attacks,
Thai police
have not
arrested any
suspects,
raising
concerns about
possible
government
involvement in
the
violence?
May
30-2: On
Cameroon, what
is Mr.
Guterres'
response to
this call from
Refugees
International:
"UN Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres must
plan a visit
to Cameroon to
engage with
President Paul
Biya on these
crucial
issues." If
Mr. Guterres
goes, will it
be to accept
another golden
statue? Again,
where IS the
golden statute
Mr. Guterres
accepted in
October
2017?
May
30-3: On South
Sudan, AGAIN,
please explain
the photographs
of Guterres'
DSRSG
Moustapha
Soumaré with
UNSC
sanctioned
Malek Reuben
Riak on
Peacekeepers'
Day. How did
this happen?
Who invited
him? For what
purpose? What
accountability
for this will
there be? As
banned Inner
City Press
asked May 29,
explain UN
Radio Miraya's
tweet that "We
salute the
bravery and
professionalism
displayed by
#UNMISS
peacekeepers
in #SouthSudan
" - Dep
Minister of
Defence Lt Gen
Malek Reuben
Riak at #PKDay
celebrations."
What was his
role in the PK
Day events?
Why did Radio
Miraya quote
him? The
question is in
light of the
UNSC sanctions
listing:
"SSi.007 Name:
1: MALEK 2:
REUBEN 3: RIAK
4: RENGU... As
SPLA Deputy
Chief of Staff
for Logistics,
Riak was one
of the senior
officials of
the Government
of South Sudan
who planned
and oversaw an
offensive in
Unity state in
2015 that
resulted in
widespread
destruction
and large
population
displacement."
May
30-4: On the
use of public
funds, AGAIN,
given that
you've only
said SG will
"travel on to
Aachen in
Germany, from
29 to 30 May
to receive the
International
Charlemagne
Prize, an
honour which
has been
awarded
anually since
1950 for
efforts made
in the service
of European
unification.
The
Secretary-General
will be back
in the office
on Monday, 3
June" - where
will the SG be
from May 30 to
June 3,
separately, at
what cost to
the public
including
security
costs? Who
flew to
Germany to
witness the
award
ceremony, why
and at what
cost?
May
30-5: On press
freedom and
Albania, what
is the SG's
belated
comment and
aciton if any
on the state
violence to
Eliza Gjediku
and Arbed
Dajçi during
the protests
on 13 April,
the
hospitalisation
due to tear
gas of Isa
Myzyraj and
Marsela
Karapanço, the
assault of Ola
Xama by a
Guard of the
Republic, and
the public
sexual
harassment of
Enkelejda Mema
by Skënder
Gjinushi.
Journalists
reported as
suffering from
violence
inflicted by
protestors
included
Besfort
Kryeziu, Eno
Xhaja, Mateo
Brahja, and
Arsen Rusta.
In the UN,
what has the
accountability
been for Lt
Ronald E.
Dobbins and
those those
refused on
camera to give
their names?
What is each
of yours -
particularly
the SG's -
response to
the letter
written and
sent by
Burundi
activist
Manisha
Lievin? To the
April 15
letter to the
SG, DSG and
USG Smale for
which receipt
has not even
been
acknowledged,
other than a
single lawless
line from
MALU: "Your
media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M66561081, has
been
declined"?
This is a
formal request
for the UN's
explanation of
grounds for
this denied,
and since
SGcentral, the
SG's chief of
staff and
Deputy SG and
USG Smale
haven't even
confirmed
receipt of the
April 15
letter much
less
responded, for
reconsideration.
AGAIN,
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.
May
29-2: On
Uganda and
Rwanda, what
is the SG's
belated
comment and
action if any
on reports
that Uganda’s
security
operatives
have arrested
two Rwandan
nationals
alleged to
have entered
the country
illegally to
gather
intelligence?
May
28-3: On
Cameroon,
AGAIN, what is
the SG's
comment and
action if any
on that on May
15, Paul
Biya's
soldiers
burned over 70
homes in
Mankon,
Bamenda.
Soldiers
dragged one
man from his
house,
shooting him
dead in the
street. They
killed Nwacha
Christopher
Neba, a
41-year-old
mechanic, and
burned down
scores of
private homes
and shops
across Alachu,
Matsam, and
Muwatsu. On
May 17, the
governor of
the North-West
region
established a
bogus
commission to
identify
victims from
the “incident”
in Mankon and
evaluate their
needs, the
humanitarian
situation, and
the material
damage and
property
destroyed. The
commission is
scheduled to
submit its
report by May
24. Again,
answer Inner
City Press's
many many
UNanswered
questions,
including on
this:
alternate
Member of
Parliament
Essomba
Bengono just
after the UNSC
meeting said
on TV, "Do you
know how many
times God had
to wipe out
the human race
to constitute
a
people?"
May
24-2: On
China, what is
the SG's
comment and
action if any
- including in
light of his
still
undisclosed
connection to
CEFC China
Energy through
its bid for
Gulbenkian
Foundation's
oil company,
on that
Developed and
sold by the
China
Electronics
Technology
Corporation, a
state-run
defense
manufacturer,
the system in
Kashgar is on
the cutting
edge of what
has become a
flourishing
new market for
technology
that the
government can
use to monitor
and subdue
millions of
Uighurs and
members of
other Muslim
ethnic groups
in
Xinjiang?
May
16-2: On
Sudan, what is
the SG's
comment and
action if any
that the new
interim vice
president,
Mohamed Hamdan
“Hemeti”
Dagolo, was in
charge of the
janjaweed
militias in
Darfur?
May
15-3: On the
Public
Financial
Disclosures
for 2017
belatedly
published over
the weekend of
April 27-28,
please state
why Mohammed
Ibn Chambas,
like the
Executive
Secretary of
the UN
Biodiversity
Convention,
Cristiana
Paşca-Palmer,
UNICEF's
Henriette
Fore, with
documented
links to
ExxonMobil and
others, USG
Mark Lowcock
(undisclosed
while the
Secretariat's
speaker at the
UNSC Arria on
Cameroon),
UNCTAD's
Mukhisa
Kituyi, UN
Women's
Phumzile
Mlambo-Ngcuka,
UNOG chief
Michael
Moller, UNDP
chief Achim
Steiner,
Heidi Mendoza,
Adama Dieng,
UN Security
chief Peter
Drennan,
Rosemary
DiCarlo and
Nicholas
Haysum, is not
even on the
list. OIOS
chief
Inga-Britt
Ahlenius
reported - why
not Mendoza?
Where IS
Mendoza? Isn't
it a bad
practice for
the UN's head
(anti)
genocide
definition
official to
conceal from
the public
even cursory
financial
disclosure?
Did DiCarlo
decline to
make any
public
disclosure
despite being
the UN's top
political
officer? What
is the even
plausible
applicability
of this line
from SG
Guterres' web
page: "Please
note that
given the
multi-cultural
environment of
the UN and the
often security
sensitive
locations
where UN staff
are either
working or
come from,
full public
disclosure may
not always be
a viable or
sensible
option for
certain staff
members"? Why
has Guterres
changed the
previous
system in a
which a
"choosing not
to disclose"
statement was
upload and
listed, to one
which helps
conceal who
reports and
who does
not?
Again, state
why
considering
the UN bribery
conviction of
Patrick Ho of
CEFC, and
CEFC's attempt
to purchase
the oil
company of
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which paid Mr.
Guterres in
2016 was
omitted from
his online
public
financial
disclosure
covering 2016,
and why
Guterres has
not even
started an
audit of CEFC
in the
UN.
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