In
UN Guinea Bissau Holds Evening
Event With Chinese Paintings,
MOU With UNCG, Ng Echo
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
August 12 – In the UN on
August 11, the Ambassador of
Guinea Bissau gave a speech in
front of a curved wall of
painting by a Chinese artist,
praising a Memorandum of
Understanding reached between
his country and something
called “UNCG,” which he did
not define. Inner City Press,
evicted
and still restricted for
covering Macau-based
buinessman Ng Lap Seng's
purchase of and agreements
with various small countries
and UN entities, managed to
Periscope the event, here.
Afterward Inner City Press
research found that UNCG is
the UN Commutech Group, which
on the Internet has a total of
two Tweets and a website that
is still “UNder construction,”
even as the group brags of
having penetrated the UN
General Assembly high level
week in 2015 and 2016.
That General Assembly week in
2015 is the one in which then
Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon's nephew Dennis Bahn
and brother,
still on the lam, used Ban's
and the UN's name to try to
sell real estate in Vietnam,
according to the US Attorney's
indictment in the US Court for
the Southern District of New
York. Inner City Press is
covering that case as well,
even as the UN Department of
Public Information, soon
to be headed by Alison Smale
of the New York Times, refuses
even after Ng's conviction on
all charges to return
Inner City Press to regular
Resident Correspondent
accreditation and its office,
for now assigned to an
Egyptian state media Akhbar al
Yom whose correspondent Sanaa
Youssef, a 1984 president of
the UN Correspondents
Association, rarely comes in
and never asks questions. Has
the UN reformed or changed
under Ban's successor Antonio
Guterres and his deputy Amina
J. Mohammed, in power more
than seven months? Will its
DPI "Global Communications,"
under Smale, who will replace
Cristina Gallach who according
even to a UN audit first published
by Inner City Press allowed
Ng, with no due diligence, to
buy events in the UN and even
the UN slavery memorial? There
is a structural conflict that
Inner City Press and now the Free
UN Coalition for Access
have pointed out: the people
in charge of pro-UN propaganda
are also allowed to rule on
the accreditation and access
of independent press covering
the UN more critically, with
no content neutral rules, or
rules of any kind. What could
do wrong? The August 11 event
had free cans of (warm) beer,
duck and chicken feet, and the
banner of ECOWAS, the mission
of Sierra Leone and the Cote
d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
consulate. But only a few
hours later, while the
painting remained up, the
identifying paraphernalia was
gone. The UN provided support
services to the event, and
Inner City Press has the
document, as it awaits further
documents from the Ng Lap Seng
trial. The UN is corrupt.
We'll have more on this.
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