UNITED NATIONS
GATE, July 17
– 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 17
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 1042
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,
8-15
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
17-1: On China
and the
Central
African
Republic, what
is the SG's
comment and
action if any
on that a CAR
parliamentary
report has
recommended
that four
Chinese-run
gold mines be
closed down
because of
health
concerns and
pollution?
Aurelio
Gazzera, an
Italian
Carmelite
priest who
works in the
Bozoum region
said people
living near
the Ouham
river had been
drinking and
washing in the
river, which
had been
infected by
chemicals used
at the mines,
including
mercury and
cyanide.
Infant
mortality had
increased
since mining
started, the
priest
said.
Father Gazzera
also said that
since workers
from elsewhere
had arrived in
the area,
there had been
an increase in
cases of local
women being
raped, along
with
prostitution.
What has the
UN Mission in
CAR done about
any of this,
including
rapes by
Chinese
workers? And
why didn't
Guterres
disclose on
his public
financial
disclosure
covering 2016
his payments
from
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which sought
to sell its
oil company
Partex to UN
briber CEFC
China
energy?
July
17-2: On Haiti
what is the
SG's comment
and action if
any on the
report, “The
Lasalin
Massacre and
the Human
Rights Crisis
in Haiti,”
about the
November 2018
massacre in
the
neighborhood
of Lasalin in
Haiti’s
capital city,
Port-au-Prince.
The report
provides
evidence of
other
subsequent
massacres and
human rights
violations
facilitated
and supported
by the
government of
Jovenel Moise
and his ruling
PHTK
party.
July
17-3: On
Myanmar and
the UN(SG)'s
systemic
failure, what
is Mr.
Guterres'
comment and
action if any
on that the US
State
Department on
Tuesday
sanctioned
four top
Myanmar
military
officials for
human rights
abuses against
the Rohingya
population in
the country's
northern
Rakhine State,
as responsible
"for gross
human rights
violations,"
including
extrajudicial
killings,
during the
campaign of
violence
beginning in
August 2017.
Under the
designations,
Commander-in-Chief
of Myanmar's
Armed Forces
Min Aung
Hlaing, Deputy
Commander-in-Chief
Soe Win,
Brigadier
General Than
Oo, Brigadier
General Aung
Aung and their
families will
not be
permitted to
enter the
US... Still
waiting for
answer to
Inner City
Press' July 16
question about
any Guterres
action on
restrictions
on UN
staff.
July
17-4: On Hong
Kong and China
and the right
to assemble,
what is the
comment or
action of the
ostensibly
conflict
prevention
minded SG on
that
Organisers
planning
another mass
march against
Hong Kong’s
embattled
government
this weekend
have warned
police that
denying them a
permit to
proceed would
effectively
mean imposing
a curfew on
the city after
the force
asked them on
Tuesday to
postpone the
protest
because of
safety
concerns.
July
17-5: On press
freedom and
Pakistan, what
is the SG's
comment and
action if any
on that
Pakistani
journalists
held
nationwide
protests
Tuesday to
denounce
rampant
censorship by
the country's
powerful
security
services...
journalists
have decided
to "fight the
unprecedented
censorship"...
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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