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UN GATE, July 17 – Inner City Press on 5 July 2018 was banned from entering the UN, two day after it was physically removed from conducting interviews outside meeting about the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' $6.7 billion budget.

  Then Guterres' Department of Global Communication, run by Melissa Fleming, issued a letter banning Inner City Press from the UN - for life. With no due process, no right of appeal.  Guterres has put the UN in the US Press Freedom Tracker, here. Guterres' Spokesman Stephane Dujarric falsely promised on camera that he would be answering banned Inner City Press' questions - but see below.

     On July 17 after Guterres again refused to answer but the IMF did answer, here, and before an amateur UN noon briefing not by Stephane "French Whine" Dujarric, previously the face of UN lies on cholera in Haiti, but his now fully compromised Deputy Farhan Haq, Inner City Press submitted yet more questions (blocked by Dujarric's screener Florencia Soto Nino on +1 917 226 7816 and Dujarric himself on +1 917 622 7652; he directed some favored scribes to Eri Kaneko on +1 917 208 8910, who now blocks Inner City Press on WhatsApp as well) including on the basis on which it continues to be lawlessly banned from entering to ask questions in person. Now also on the basis for withholding publicly funded UN video from the Press. There was no answer from Farhan Haq on +1 917 592 4591, not even a confirmation of receipt, and now UN official like Hua Jiang, Eri Kaneko, now on screen Jennifer Confilio, Adam Smook, Marisela Rivera and others to be named taking public money for a UN briefing blocking email questions about the UN's spread of Covid 19 - May 21 Inner City Press video with commentary here and here, edit here, June 16 video of Kaneko who had briefing go dark and never returned to explain here and here -- who will be held accountable? June 17 here, June 19 here, June 22 here, June 24 here, June 30 here, July 1 here, July 6 here, July 7 here, July 8 here, July 9 here, July 10 here , July 13 here, July 14 here, July 15 here, July 16 and ouster here, July 17 raw and UNTV, Inner City Press asked:

July 17-1: Immediately respond to (as you have to date refused to) and explain this leaked audio, exclusively published by Inner City Press, of OIOS' Ben Swanson here  

On Office of South South Cooperation and UN bribery cover up, respond to and explain this leaked audio, exclusively published by Inner City Press, of Ines Tofalo, here,  and this (subsequently changed) draft audit, here  

July 17-2a: On the reported disciplining of two - BUT NOT THREE -- at UNTSO, explain why you have not named them; confirm or deny they are as Inner City Press asked you in June Michael Antoine and Ray Milan; disclose previous complaints regarding Antoine and any actions taken, and confirm that Administrative Leave without Pay allows for payment of education grant and insurance, and is not a disciplinary measure. Also state when further actions are expected. See, here (as of before noon July 16 with 176,000 views on Twitter, more on other platforms) 

NOW ANSWER - WHAT ABOUT THE DRIVER? Specifically, Inner City Press is reliably involved the driver was Juan Carlos Cunillera of UNTSO. Given his presence, and other irregularities, immediately explain why there are only two suspended and not three, and how this is not a cover up. 

ALSO IMMEDIATELY DESCRIBE AND EXPLAIN, AS TO THIS CASE, the UN's "Carlog" technology, "used for driver authentication (swipe card used in the Carlog device before ignition)." It is important you answer about the UN's publicly funded (but defrauded) Carlog technology and its role in this cover up.  [Inner City Press has separately sent these questions directly to UNTSO, on deadline.]

AND NOW IMMEDIATELY RESPOND, AS YOU AND UNTSO HAVE NOT, TO THIS: "it was Ray Milan who used his ID to start the UN vehicle - but that, contrary to policy, Juan Carlos Cunillera took the wheel." Who will be fired? Or resign?

ALSO - immediately respond to the UNRWA hiring scandal, here, and serious questions about the testimony of the Chef de Cabinet and USG Pollard, also involved in the Cunillera cover up.   

relatedly, confirm that the "Luminate" mentioned by USG Fleming on June 29 is Pierre Omidyar's foundation, here

On Somalia, what are the SG's responses on deadline to the murder of 9 Somali street cleaners by Al-Shabaab -- The project was funded by UNMAS and implemented by a company called Ukroboronservice. Survivors say basic security precautions were ignored?

On Cameroon, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that Language differences played out in court in Cameroon during an appeal hearing against the life sentences handed down last August to Anglophone separatist leader Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and nine others.  They were found guilty on 10 counts, including terrorism and destruction of public property for their part in a separatist rebellion in two English-speaking regions in a country where French is spoken by the majority of people.  At the start of hearing, many of the separatists raised their fingers to their ears to signal that they did not understand what the judge was saying as he was speaking in French.  The judge abruptly ended the deliberations after turning down their requests to speak in English.

Immediately explain and provide SG Guterres' comment and action on the events now-charged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell (who was ordered held over and detained in the SDNY on July 14) previously held in the UN, and any provisions to prevent formally accused sex traffickers, including of the UN, from using the UN.

as well as on the June 22 admission by Sri Lanka former PR Kohona that his country led a campaign to get Inner City Press ousted and banned from the UN after it reported on mass killings in Sri Lanka, as Inner CIty Press was also doing as to Cameroon when your UN banned it now for 721 day. What is the appeals process? On deadline."  

In Honduras, President JOH talked up hydroxychloroquin - what does SG Guterres say about that, and about JOH named today in narco-trafficking complaint in SDNY against former Honduran National Police Chief Tigre Bonilla? 

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