UNITED NATIONS
GATE, July 11
– 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 July 11 three
hours before the
UN noon
briefing by Deputy Farhan
Haq -
Dujarric is
away on
vacation for
the whole
month of July
--
Inner
City Press submitted 1025
questions,
including why
it continues
to be
lawlessly banned
from entering
to ask
questions in
person:
"There
are more than
600+
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,
21-31,
June
3-28,
and July 1-2,
8-10
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.
July
11-1: On
Zimbabwe, what
is the SG's
comment and
action if any
on that a
Zimbabwean
politician has
arrived in
court where he
is expected to
be charged for
allegedly
threatening to
"overthrow"
President
Emmerson
Mnangagwa
during a
weekend rally
in the rural
district of
Bikita.
Job Sikhala,
the deputy
chair of
Zimbabwe's
main
opposition
Movement for
Democratic
Change, denies
the
accusation.
The remand
hearing is to
begin at
Bikita's
Magistrates
Court
today.
July
11-2: On
sexual
harassment and
the Colin
Stewart
question Inner
City Press
asked Guterres
and you in
writing
without any
answer at all,
what now is
the SG's
response and
action if any
on this
report
crediting
Inner City
Press;
July
11-3: On China
and its abuse
of Uighurs,
given that
Guterres has
already been
mocked by The
Onion and sent
his
counter-terrorism
envoy to back
up the abuse,
what is the
SG's comment
and action if
any on that
nearly two
dozen
countries have
signed a joint
letter to the
United Nations
calling on
China to end
the mass
detention of
Uighur
people.
In the letter
to the high
commissioner
for human
rights, 22
ambassadors -
including
those from the
UK, Germany
and Japan -
raised
concerns about
"large-scale
places of
detention, as
well as
widespread
surveillance
and
restrictions,
particularly
targeting
Uighurs and
other
minorities in
Xinjiang".
July
11-4: On China
and Hong Kong,
what is the
SG's comment
and action on
that at theUN
in Geneva the
Chinese
representative,
Dai Demao,
twice
interrupted
Denise Ho's
speech,
calling for a
point of
order...Dai
referred to
Ho's language
as an
"affront" to
China?
July
11-5: On
immunity,
impunity and
harm caused by
Member State
Missions to
the UN, what
is the UN's
response to
the Nigeria
Mission
vehicle
hitting and
injuring a New
Yorker on 49th
Street and 2d
Ave while not
having
insurance or
registration
in violation
of the
Diplomatic
Relations Act?
As Inner City
Press reported
yesterday,
Jennifer A.
Edward was
heading to her
work as a
lawfirm
paralegal when
a Nigerian
Mission to the
UN vehicle
struck her,
causing
serious
injury.
The vehicle's
registration
and insurance
were both
expired. The
driver who was
working for
Nigeria's
Mission had
previously had
accidents. But
Nigeria and
its mission
refused to
pay, or even
for months to
respond to the
lawsuit that
was filed.
What is the
comment of the
SG and
specifically
DSG Amina J.
Mohammed?
July
11-6: In DRC,
what if
anything has
the UN done to
try to find in
North Kivu
province
Philippe
Bundya
Musongelwa,
Richard
Muhindo
Matabishi and
Romy Ya-Dunia
Ntibanyendera?
July 11-7: On
press freedom
and Tanzania,
what is the
SG's comment
and action if
any on that
Tanzania's
Foreign
Minister
Paramagamba
Kabudi has
appeared to
say that a
journalist who
went missing
in 2017 may
have
died.
Asked if the
state had done
enough to find
out what
happened to
the
investigative
journalist
Azory Gwanda,
part of Mr
Kabudi's reply
was:
"The state is
dealing with
all those who
have
unfortunately
died and
disappeared in
Rufiji." What
has the UN
done? now that
the US Court
of Appeals for
the Second
Circuit has
ruled against
public
officials
blocking
critics on
Twitter even
if the
official
claims their
account is
private, what
is the
justification
for UNSG
Spokesperson
Stephane
Dujarric, with
the UN flag in
his profile
photo and
Guterres
promoting
content,
blocking Inner
City Press?
What is SG
Guterres'
response /
reaction to UN
DSS and
Guterres'
actions on
Inner City
Press being listed
in the U.S.
Press Freedom
Tracker.
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.
June
14-5: Since
the SG claimed
publicly that
the mansion he
lives in
"cannot" be
sold, please
immediately
provide any
and all
documents with
such a
restriction,
and separately
explain why
the concept of
cy pres or
reformation of
donor intent
has not been
explored.
Separately,
Boutros
Boutros Galli
wrote in his
book that the
building was
given by
Arthur
Houghton
through the
United Nations
Association of
the USA. What
actual
inquires, with
UNA-USA or any
successor to
Houghton or
Corning Glass,
has Guterres
made?
June
11-1: On
Cameroon, what
is the SG's
comment and
action if any
on this report
from Chinese
state media:
"YAOUNDE, June
10 (Xinhua) --
Cameroon's
House Speaker
of National
Assembly
Cavaye Yeguie
Djibril on
Monday
denounced
foreign
interference
in the
country's
internal
affairs which
he referred to
as
"conspiracy."
"Cameroon has
become an
object of
conspiracy
intended to
destabilize
the country.
To justify
their
interference
in internal
affairs, the
conspirators
pretend to
denounce it."
Again, how
many offices /
desk does the
Secretariat
give to
Chinese state
media inside
the UN?
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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