| UN Security Council Admits
Estonia Tunisia Vietnam St Vincent and Niger
While Guterres Censors
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Jan 2 – In the
sideshow of the UN and its
Security Council, from which
UNSG Antonio Guterres has
banned the investigative Press
for 548 days, five new
non-permanent members entered
in a January 2 ceremony. Each
spoke, but no questions were
taken. And Inner City Press
has many questions.
New member
Vietnam is president for
January, but its program of
work has nothing for example
about the slaughter in
Cameroon; it has Colombia on
January 13 but nothing on
Honduras, recently exposed as
a narco-state in a trial in
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York which Inner City Press
now covers as well as the UN,
from the UN Gate.
There are
no fewer than four meetings on
Syria, but Libya where Turkey
has voted to send forces and
where the UN has been exposed
as helping militias is put off
until the 29th. Yemen is on
the 16th, West Africa (pro
strongman SRSG Chambas) on the
8th and, interestingly, a
debate on ASEAN on the 23rd.
We'll have more on this.
And the UN
of SG Antonio Guterres,
wasting public money for
example on Guterres' now three
week junket away from New
York, didn't even manage to
update to Security Council's
website at the turn of the
year. At 7 pm on January 1,
the UN web site still listed
as current members: "Côte
d’Ivoire , Equatorial Guinea,
Kuwait (2019) Peru (2019)
Poland (2019)." Photo here.
Even
Wikipedia had, nineteen hours
before, added
Estonia, Eastern European
Group, Niger, African Group,
Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, Latin American and
Caribbean Group (GRULAC),
Tunisia, African Group
and Vietnam." As Inner
City Press reported, Guterres
gave the UNSC website to the
photographer husbands of USG
DiCarlo's chief of staff, here.
Inner City Press,
which covered in person these
five's performance from
January through June of 2018
before being roughed up and
banned by UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres with
no reaction by the five,
despite claims of commitment
to press freedom and even UN
transparency, has continued to
cover them.
Kuwait, for example, which has
gotten its KUNA to inflate its
performance, phoned
it in on African issues
including praising Paul Biya,
dictator of Cameroon.
Its
Permanent Representative, a
pleasure enough man, when
Inner City Press standing at
the Delegates Entrance raised
the issue of its expulsion and
ban by Guterres, replied that
if the UN Correspondents
Association with state media
like Xinhua on its Executive
Committee was colluding with
Guterres there was nothing to
be done. One, this is weak for
a member state. Two, it
confirms how disgusting the UN
has become under Guterres.
So what were the
achievements, again? We'll
continue to cover this and the
UNSC, even while the censor
Guterres and his Melissa
Fleming maintain their ban on
the Press. Viet Nam takes over
January 1, 2020.
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