UNITED NATIONS
GATE, Oct 8
– Inner City Press
on 5 July
2018 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' Department
of Global Communication
issued a letter
banning Inner City
Press from the UN -
for life. With no
due process.
Guterres has
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 October
8
more
than three
hours
before the
12:15
pm noon
briefing by Spokesman
Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric where
he used the
scribes he
lets in to try
to help raise
money for
Guterres'
discredited UN
after the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1260
questions,
including why
it continues
to be
lawlessly banned
from entering
to ask
questions in
person:
"There
are more than
800+
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 Sept 6
(while you
still withhold
if-asked
information
about Cameroon
child rape(s)
in DRC),
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,
8-31 and August
1-5,
8-30,
Sept 3-5, 9-30
and now
October 1-3,
7 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.
October
8-1: On UN
sexual
harassment,
cover up and
misuse of
"privacy,"
what are the
comment and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on this this
leaked email -
and the threat
banned Inner
City Press
received from
an FAO
official to
try to censor
its
accountability
reporting? "An
irate wife’s
email to
fellow members
of the World
Food Programme
book club blew
the whistle on
Sudanese
Deputy
Executive
Director Amir
Abdulla’s
amorous
activities,
leading
ultimately to
his being
referred to in
an external
review of
sexual and
other
harassment at
the UN agency,
WFP sources
said.
“Some of you
will be aware
that Amir has
been having
affairs with
colleagues at
WFP,” she told
them in the
email that
subsequently
was widely
forwarded
around the
poverty-busting
organisation's
Rome
headquarters.
“I expect some
of you have
seen him as he
seems to be
working his
way through
the
staff!”
“I had thought
this might be
a good year,
new start, but
we returned
from a
wonderful
family
Christmas to
find a message
from Lidija,
so he has
clearly moved
on from Monica
… but still
doesnt want
me.”
To... "Salter,
Cordelia (ESA"
<Cordelia.Salter@fao.org>,
Cordelia
Salter
[update: an
email address
at
cordelia.net
has been
redacted as it
is not a UN
system address
and the
individual has
requested it,
immediately
granted]...
Objet: Study
guide to
Lolita and The
Sound and the
Fury
Hello
Everyone
I hope you all
had good
holidays and
wish you a
very happy new
year. I
have really
enjoyed being
a member of
the bookclub
and getting to
know you, it
has been one
of the most
important
things in my
life over the
last couple of
years
Sadly I must
now leave you.
Some of you
will be aware
that Amir has
been having
affairs with
colleagues at
WFP, I expect
some of you
have seen him
as he seems to
be working his
way through
the
staff! I
had thought
this might be
a good year,
new start, but
we returned
from a
wonderful
family
Christmas to
find a message
from Lidija,
so he has
clearly moved
on from Monica
Masotti but
still doesnt
want me.
It will be
messy and I
will
eventually
leave Rome,
bookclub would
clearly be too
embarrassing.
Thanks for
your
friendship-any
advice would
be
great.
Julie."
Embarrassing?
What is
Guterres'
response,
including to
UN impunity on
Haiti cholera
and relatedly
to the UN
trying to ban
publication of
the WORK
EMAILS of its
publicly paid
officials?
October
8-2: On China
and its abuse
of the Uighurs
on which SG
Guterres has
publicly
claimed to be
so strong,
what are his
comments and
actions if any
on that eight
Chinese tech
firms,
including
SenseTime
and Megvii,
have been
added to the
U.S.
government
Entity List
for their role
in enabling
human rights
violations
against Muslim
minority
groups in
China,
including the
Uighurs.
October
8-3: On
freedom of
expression and
Vietnam, what
are the
comment and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that Nguyen
Quoc Duc
Vuong, 28,
from Ho Chi
Minh city was
arrested in
late September
and now faces
charges of
“making,
storing,
disseminating
or
propagandising
information”
intended “to
oppose the
State of the
Socialist
Republic of
Vietnam”
October
8-4: On
Cambodia what
are the SG's
comments and
actions if any
on that
Cambodia's
prime minister
threatened on
Monday to
deploy the
military if
leaders and
supporters of
the disbanded
main
opposition
party return
from exile
next month in
what he would
regard as an
attempted coup
d'etat.
October
8-5: On press
freedom,
freedom of
association
and protest
and Ecuador,
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on
that
Thirty-eight
journalists
from 21
Ecuadorian
media outlets
suffered some
form of
aggression
during
coverage of
the general
transport
strike that
has hit the
country since
Oct. 3,
according to
freedom of
expression
organization
Fundamedios.
The
organization
recorded 21
cases in which
police
officers
violently
advanced
against
journalists
October
8-6: On press
freedom and
Uganda, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of the SG and
separately of
USG Melissa
Fleming on
that six
broadcast
stations in
Uganda risk
having their
licences
revoked after
an
investigation
by the
industry
regulator
found that
they breached
broadcasting
standards
while covering
events that
followed the
arrest of pop
star and
presidential
aspirant Bobi
Wine.
October
7-1: Before
getting to
Cameroon and
UN corruption,
immediately
answer in
light of
subsequent
take-down
Inner City
Press'
question a
full week ago:
On UN
corruption,
what is the
response of
Guterres'
Secretariat to
the use of the
UN name and
his and the
new PGA's
imagine to
market
fraudulent
coins,
involving
known but not
acted on UN
money
laundering
assister
Carlos Garcia
who even after
being shown
helping
launder UN
briber funds
has been
allowed under
Guterres to
run events in
the UN, and
now sell
fraudulent
coins with his
image? See,
"World United
Coins" and
their website
saying, "The
United Nations
gives the
World Unicom
Certificate a
high degree of
development
recognition,
already
exposed in an
exclusive by
banned Inner
City Press.
Now all web
links are down
- what has the
UN done? How
is Guterres
not
responsible,
given inaction
on Garcia and
his
undisclosed
links with
CEFC China
Energy?
October
7-2: Also on
UN corruption,
what has the
UN done other
than answer a
question - as
you refuse to
answer Inner
City Press on
Cameroon, etc
- on the false
claims of the
"University
for Global
Peace"?
October
7-3: On
Cameroon, what
are the
comment and
actions of SG
Guterres
including in
light of his
pro-Biya
comment
ignoring Ayuk
Tabe on Biya's
army's
accelerating
killing of
civilians in
SW and NW
regions,
including in
Bali Town,
Mezam Division
North West
Region.
Soldiers
invaded the
village in
their number
during and
after October
1st
commemoration,
the day
Southern
Cameroons
independent
state of
Ambazonia was
declared, by
separatist
leaders and
fighters.
In Sang, a
Bali
neighbourhood,
several
persons,
notably
civilians are
feared
dead...
October
3-1: On
murderous drug
conspiracy,
corruption and
Honduras,
please
immediately
provide UNSG
Antonio
Guterres'
response to
and
explanation of
the SDNY
prosecutors'
asserts that
El Chapo
Guzman
funneled $1
million to
Honduras'
president and
Guterres'
September 24,
2019 meeting
with the
president,
Juan Orlando
Hernández
Alvarado, at
which neither
corruption nor
drugs was even
raised. What
does Guterres
have to
say?
September
4-8:
Immediately
explain the
single lawless
line from MALU
on 30 August
2019:
"Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018." This is
a formal
request for
the UN's
explanation of
grounds for
this denial.
And a demand
for answer to
these
questions,
which MALU has
declined to
answer:
Who made the
decision?
Where is the
list of those
accredited by
[MALU]?
What and to
whom is the
process of
appeal?
September
3-17: In light
of the death
of Jeffrey
Epstein, now
on August 27
multiply
accused of sex
trafficking
along with
Ghislaine
Maxwell who
was allowed to
promote her
now closed
charity in the
UN Press
Briefing Room,
as Inner City
Press asked
without any UN
response on
July 22,
please
immediately
disclose all
UN
interactions
with his
Ghislaine
Maxwell's
TerraMar
Project and
relatedly,
with Paolo
Zampolli.
September
3-19: On press
freedom and
Cameroon, on
which you
refused to
answer on
August 13
despite saying
the office was
staffed and
answering, now
more specific:
what is the
SG's comment
and action if
any, post
golden statue,
to that Paul
Atanga Nji,
territorial
administration
minister, says
Cameroon's
journalists
are becoming
highly
unpatriotic.
"They have one
main
objective,
just to
sabotage
government
action, to
promote
secessionist
tendencies,"
said Nji. "I
urge them to
be
responsible.
Those who do
not want to
respect the
laws will be
booked as
being
recalcitrant
and will be
treated as
such"... 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, here.
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?
Immediately
explain the
single lawless
line from MALU
on 30 August
2019:
"Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018." 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 Fleming
have not even
responded...
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 - and
respond that
Inner City
Press on
August 24
applied like
100s or 1000s
of others to
cover the
upcoming UNGA
high level
week,
including now
formally
offering to
answer any
quesions the
UN / DSS might
have, having
been vetted
and accredited
elsewhere
since, as both
USG DSS
Michaud and
MALU have
formally been
timely
informed --
and how it is
possible that
a media that
closely covers
and uncovers
the UN could
be denied
entry, other
than (SG)
censorship.
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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