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UN Guterres Tries To Use WFP Nobel For His Own Wasteful Lisbon Vacations As Bans Press

By Matthew Russell Lee, CJR  Video

UN GATE, Oct 9 --  It's one thing for front line staff of the World Food Program to be proud of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded today. It's quite another for opportunistic UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who often has a negative impact on the countries cited by the Norgewian Nobel Committee and who bans Press which questions him, to latch on and try to associate himself with the prise. As predicted, it has happened:

"I am delighted by the decision of the Nobel Committee to award this year’s Prize for Peace to the United Nations World Food Programme...  There is also a hunger in our world for international cooperation.  The World Food Programme feeds that need, too.  WFP operates above the realm of politics, with humanitarian need driving its operations.  The organization itself survives on voluntary contributions from UN Member States and the public at large."

  Guterres takes the public's money, on top of Chinese bribes, and takes secret and wasteful vacations to Lisbon mid-pandemic.

 And the Committee's name checking of the UN Security Council and Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan and Burkina Faso is questionable.

 As just two example, in DR Congo Guterres this year has been covering up rapes by UN peacekeepers, and withholding information about it, as he has about the UN's role in introducing and spreading COVID-19 in South Sudan, here.

 Even as to WFP, consider this:

 "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.”   -------   Expéditeur: Julie Abdulla <julie.abdulla [at] gmail.com>  Date: January 5 Destinataire: Miatta KORPO <miatta.korpo@wfp.org>  Cc: Kawinzi MUIU <kawinzi.muiu@wfp.org>, Laura DAGOSTINI <laura.dagostini@wfp.org>, Cristina ASCONE <cristina.ascone@wfp.org>, "GILLMAN Helen Maree" <h.gillman@ifad.org>, Sara ADAM <sara.adam@wfp.org>, "Andrea STOUTLAND" <andrea.stoutland@wfp.org>, GETACHEW Rahel <r.getachew@ifad.org>, Judy GICHARU <judy.gicharu@wfp.org>, Anna MAJKOWSKI <anna.majkowski@wfp.org>, Olivia <oliviagraham88 [at] gmail.com>, Joyce LUMA <joyce.luma@wfp.org>, "mgrahamm [at] gmail.com" <mgrahamm [at] gmail.com>, Gawaher ATIF <gawaher.atif@wfp.org>, "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], "adamsjude [at] googlemail.com" <adamsjude [at] googlemail.com>, "Nancy WALTERS" <nancy.walters@wfp.org>, Elizabeth KETEMA <elizabeth.ketema@wfp.org>, AnneClaire LUZOT <anneclaire.luzot@wfp.org>, Suzanne Raswant <credasuz01 [at] yahoo.com>, Livia PAOLUZZI <livia.paoluzzi@wfp.org>, Issa SANOGO <issa.sanogo@wfp.org>, Adeyinka BADEJO <adeyinka.badejo@wfp.org>  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? The UN of faux feminist Guterres is a total joke, and tries to ban and censor the Press which asks and reports on it.

Talk about MeToo - the faux feminist Guterres covers up and rewards such behavior. And later on April 18 Ms. Nahla Valji, Senior Gender Adviser, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, was bragging about Guterres and feminism. What hypocrisy. We'll have more on this - while Guterres and his spokespeople refuse to answer any of Inner City Press' written questions, we still have sources, many sources.

   In the midst of Inner City Press' questioning in 2018 about Guterres' links to now convicted UN bribery Patrick Ho's China Energy Fund Committee and Guterres' failures on Cameroon and elsewhere, his UN Security twice roughed up Inner City Press on June 22 and July 3, 2018.

Then after Inner City Press filed a New York Police Department complaint against the UN and its Lieutenant Ronald E. Dobbins, none of its written questions to UN Security chief Peter Drennen and Guterres were answered. There are no due process rights for journalists in the UN of Guterres.

Without any reasoning or explanation, this: "Greetings Matthew LEE from ICP     INNER CITY PRESS,  Your media accreditation request, with reference no: M66561081, has been declined." Just as there was no hearing, no action on assault by UN DSS Lieutenant Ronald E. Dobbins, and not appeals process, no reasons. This was repeated in September 2020.

The letter was sent to Guterres, his chief of staff Maria Luiza Viotti and her staffer Eihab Omaish, his Deputy SG Amina J. Mohammed and her chief of staff Nelson Muffuh, as well as to the PGA, to MALU chief Tal Mekel and others still to be named  along with a simple request for confirmation of receipt. Even this they had not done.

Beyond the hundreds of articles covering the UN since the arbitrary ouster of 3 July 2018, see March 29, 2019, Hong Kong TV documentary on Patrick Ho of diamond briber CEFC China Energy, Inner City Press in front of UN and SDNY...

   For years Guterres received money as a board member of the Calouste Galbenkian Foundation, which despite its name is the 100% owner of Partex Oil and Gas. Partex has operations in Angola, Abu Dhabi, Brazil, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Oman and Portugal. It was to a Portuguese court that Guterres, while justifying no listing some of his income, disclosed in 2016 that he was paid at least € 2735 per month for his position with the Gulbenkian Foundation.

   But while a now deleted Foundation web page (archived here) stated that Guterres continued with Gulbenkian into 2018, Guterres did not list it on his most recent, and so far lone, UN Public Financial Disclosure, which covered 2016 ("Disclosing financial and other interests for the 2016 reporting year").

  So why did Guterres disclose his position with the Club of Madrid, but not with the Gulbenkian Foundation / Partex Oil and Gas?  Inner City Press has a right to re-enter and pursue these questions.

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