UN
Guterres Orders 10% Cuts As
Downplayed Shortfall and US 70%
Role As Bans Inner City Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive III, Patreon
UNITED NATIONS,
September 16 – The UN on July
26 misleadingly put the amount
it is owed for its regular
budget at $810 million. The
real number for “Outstanding
Regular Budget” in the UN's
internal Status of
Contributions website, as of
July 26, is $1,286,496,899.22,
Inner City Press can
exclusively report. See Status
of Contributions printout,
first exclusive, here
on Scribd; if any problem, here via Patreon.
Now, still
banned from the UN by
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres since July 3 but not
reversed by any member state
(Guterres' UN is telling
people it is supported in its
censorship by the US mission
of Nikki Haley, of the $58,000
a month apartment), Inner City
Press has obtained from
multiple member state sources
an internal UN document from
Guterres' head of Management
Jan Beagle, dated September
14, demanding cuts of 10%.
From the memo: "SUBJECT:
Measures to address the
financial situation
1. On 25 July 2018, the
Secretary-General informed all
staff and Member States about
the troubling financial
situation facing the United
Nations regular budget and the
need to take measures to
reduce expenses during the
rest of 2018, with a focus on
non-staff costs.
2. While we have received
payments from some Member
States following the Secretary
General's letter, a serious
cash flow problem remains. The
Secretary-General has
therefore decided to implement
a 10% reduction on unspent
balances in non-staff costs in
the regular budget, across the
Secretariat, with additional
targeted reductions for some
activities.
3. The Office of Program
Planning, Budget and Accounts
will provide you with the
details of the reductions for
your Department/Office. You
will have discretion as to how
the reductions are
implemented, taking into
consideration your operational
needs.
4. We understand that these
reductions will not be easy to
implement, but they are
necessary due to the current
cash flow situation. The cash
situation will be monitored
regularly with a view to
releasing funds if the
liquidity situation improves
sufficiently.
5. We count on your
cooperation. If you have any
questions on implementation,
please contact the Controller.
cc: Ms. Maria Luiza Viotti."
We'll have more on this.
Back in July, before learning
Guterres' UN is bragging that
Nikki Haley supports banning
Inner City Press, it obtained
documents showing the United
States role in the shortfall,
diplomatically underplayed by
the vacationing censor
Guterres. This Status of
Contributions document about
the United States shows that
of the actual $1,286,496,899.22
UN regular budget shortfall,
$938,376,277.47 is the US:
that is, 72.9% of the
shortfall is the US. Second
exclusive here,
on Patreon here.
(That there are reasons not to
pay the UN, such as
peacekeepers' rapes and physical
censorship and banning of the
Press, is also clear).
Even of
Guterres' spokesman Dujarric
artifically limited deficit
figure of $810 million -
Dujarric disingenuously spoke
only of 2018, without
including the ongoing 2017
shortfall - the US makes up
73.01% of it, with
$591,388,114 of the $810
million. As reflected by the
leaked Status of Contributions
document exclusively obtained
by Inner City Press, the US'
total contribution payable are
over $3 billion.
Inner City Press was banned
from the July 26 UN noon
briefing where Secretary
General Antonio Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
made this claim, and so could
not ask questions. It
submitted five questions, only
one of which was partially
answered. (Dujarric, answering
another journalist's questions
about why Inner City Press is
banned and who made the
decision said
the "investigation" is only by
Alison Smale's Department of
Public Information, such that
UN Security's assault on Inner
City Press is NOT part of the
UN's investigation. This is a
cover up, for UN corruption.)
Inner City
Press has been banned from the
UN since July 3, when while it
was covering the UN Budget
Committee meeting as it has
for years its reporter was roughed
up by UN Security
Lieutenant Ronald E. Dobbins
and another officer the UN
still refuses to name.
In
front of UN Department of
Management official Christian
Saunders (previously embroiled
in a UN procurement scandal)
Inner City Press' reporter was
physically removed from the
UN. After filing a New York
City Police Department
criminal report on July 4,
Inner City Press was blocked
by UN Security from entering
the building on July 5, and
has been banned for 23 days
since.
Guterres, who was informed
on June 25 that Lt Dobbins was
targeting Inner City Press
which has published a
similarly leaked UN document
calling into question his and
others' promotions in UN
Security, refused
on July 20 to answer why Inner
City Press is banned, and set
off on a two week vacation,
location undisclosed.
(Tellingly, insiders quoting
Guterres' letter but not the
actual numbers did not mention
he is on vacation.) Guterres declined
to speak to the Frontline
documentary on UN
peacekeepers' rapes that aired
on July 24.
Exclusive:
UN Claims It's Owed $810M But Real
Number Is 1,286 Billion Inner City
Press Learns While Banned by Matthew
Russell Lee on Scribd
On July 13
as Inner City Press worked
outside the UN on the bus stop
bench on 45th Street and First
Avenue in front of the UN
Delegates Entrance it was
informed by a source that “the
US has stopped paying its dues
and Guterres is asking for 5%
cut all around” Being banned
from the building Inner City
Press has been trying to
confirm and expand on this,
being told by another source
that “I have heard that there
are important Member States
that have delayed payments
(US, Japan, Brazil, Mexico for
instance) and that evidently
do create a cash challenge.”
We'll have more on this - and
on Guterres' ongoing
censorship.
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