| UN Closes UNIS and Bans
Public But Not China Iran Japan Italy
and South Korea Dips and Scribes
By Matthew
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UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, March 11 – The United
Nations has belatedly taken an
action on Coronavirus
COVID-19. It has banned the
public from entering UN
Headquarters on the East Side
of Manhattan. And now,
the UN International School
(see below).
But the UN under
pro-China
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres was first dismissive
of the virus, and now choose a
broad-brush, "Screw the
Public" approach as opposed to
what, for example, the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
has done.
At
the entrance of the SDNY, from
which Inner City Press now
reports daily, a sign informs
those entering that if they or
someone close has recently
visited China, Japan, South
Korea, Italy or Iran, they are
not to enter but rather to
inform the Court Security
Officers.
But Guterres,
with a history of covering up
Chinese state bribes in the UN
including through censorship,
has not done this. Instead, he
used UN Security to rough up
and still ban
the Press which asked him
about his murky
connections to CEFC China
Energy, whose Patrick Ho was
convicted of UN bribery in the
SDNY court.
On March
11, Ho is appealing in the
Second Circuit Court of
Appeals. Inner City Press will
cover that, and exclusively
publishes this on UNIS:
"From: Catherine
Pollard
<pollardc@un.org> Sent:
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
00:19 To: David Haeri; Stephen
Margetts; Katharina Margetts
Subject: Staff arrangements
for UNIS school
closure Dear
all, As you will have
seen, this evening the
Executive Director of UNIS
circulated a message to the
school community with details
on the updated situation
regarding COVID-19 and the
positive diagnosis of a
teacher in the school.
We want to re-emphasize that
all UN staff who have children
in the school should
telecommute for five days per
week while the school is
closed. I would be
grateful if you could share
this information with other UN
colleagues who are part of the
UNIS community. We will obtain
the list of the UN staff who
are in the UNIS community
tomorrow from the school and
send them all a formal
message. Thank you for
your help. We are committed to
maintaining the health and
safety of our staff and will
keep you updated.
Warmly, Catherine Sent
from my iPhone "
Likewise while a
UN in-house organ brags that
journalists with "resident
passes" are still allowed in
to largely produce propaganda
for the UN, there is no review
of the recent travel of
correspondents from China,
Japan, South Korea, Italy or
Iran, of whom there are many.
Inner City Press has for weeks
been asking Guterres, his
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming, and 22
other UN officials not only
their response to Coronavirus
and Cameroon, but also
specifics about the free entry,
including with diplomatic
license plates, of "media
workers" from Xinhua and other
Chinese state media. No
answers at all. We will have
more on this.
***
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