| UNSC
on Mali As Prez Indonesia Bans Qs on Papua
and Cameroon & Blocks Press on Twitter
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Thread Photo
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UN GATE, August
18 – In the United Nations
from which SG Antonio Guterres
has banned Inner City Press
778 days for asking about his
complicity in the killing of
civilians in Cameroon and
their mass imprisonment by
China in Xinjiang, on August 3
Inner City Press wrote to the
Indonesia Mission, as incoming
UN Security Council president,
with questions about Cameroon,
Somalia and UNsexploitation.
There was no
answer from IndonesiaUNNY.
Inner City
Press tweeted the question,
and re-submitted it the
comment box on the Mission's
website. Nothing. This as
Indonesia's foreign minister
Retno Marsudi bragged online,
"Under the theme “Advancing
Sustainable Peace, Indonesia
assumes Presidency of the UN
Security Council for the month
of August 2020."
Apparently
Indonesia PR Dian Triansyah
Djani could only handle
questions from pre-screened
in-house correspondents, one
of whose media has no
story by her since
2017, another with
no stories at all, at
least one - actually, more --
a repeated #MeToo violator.
He took
only six questioners, none on
sub Saharan Africa. One of the
six was a long retired
photographer of UN bribers,
who asked about tourism in
Bali. As Inner City Press live
tweeted, questions came
to it about West Papua, on
which we'll have more. Djani
told a correspondent in a
leafy backyard that he, too,
lives in New Rochelle, and
pitched Batik face masks. It
was pathetic. He gave a bonus
round for a Maki plant to ask
him to trash Armenia about
Nogorno Karabakh. We'll have
more on this.
Indonesia
has not said a word about the
slaughter in Cameroon, nor
about the Tel Aviv UN
sexploitation exposed by Inner
City Press.
The
Program belatedly went up -
with countries on which
Indonesia ignored and censored
questions: Somalia, where
UNMAS sent local staff to be
killed, and Yemen. There will
be COVID (which the UN helped
spread in South Sudan) on
August 12; closed on Lebanon
on August 11, closed on Syria
August 5, closed on North
Korea August 27, Middle East
August 25 and on other days.
Nothing on Cameroon or DRC.
After
Inner City Press again on
August 4 covered and live
tweeted Indonesia's and
Djani's session with tame UN
NGOs, including one which
after lobbying to oust Inner
City Press praised Indonesia's
human rights record without
mentioned West Papua - as
Inner City Press immediately
did - the Indonesian Mission
blocked @InnerCityPress on
Twitter. Photo here
They are
president of the UN Security
Council. This is the cesspool
of censorship into which
Guterres has turned the UN.
And now
under Indonesia's
untransparent Presidency, this
canned UNSC statement: "The
Members of the Security
Council expressed their deep
concern regarding the recent
developments in Mali. They
strongly condemned the mutiny
which happened in Kati, Mali,
on 18 August 2020, and which
led to the arrest of the
President of the Republic, the
Prime minister and several
members of the Government by
some
mutineers.
They urged those mutineers to
release safely and immediately
all the officials detained and
to return to their barracks
without
delay.
They also underlined the
urgent need to restore rule of
law and to move towards the
return to constitutional
order. They
reiterated their strong
support to the Economic
Community of West African
States’ (ECOWAS) initiatives
and mediation efforts in Mali
and expressed their support to
the two ECOWAS communiqués of
18 August 2020 as well as to
the one from the African Union
Chairperson. They called on
all Malian stakeholders to
show restraint and give
priority to dialogue to
resolve the crisis in their
country.
They reiterated their support
to the United Nations
Multidimensional Integrated
Stabilization Mission in Mali
(MINUSMA) in its efforts to
stabilize the situation in
Mali.
They expressed their
determination to continue
monitoring closely the
situation. "
When Guterres'
spokes- / hatchetman Stephane
Dujarric holds his noon
briefings, he refuses all
questions from Inner City
Press despite an on camera promise.
And Indonesia.We'll continue
to report.
Watch this site.
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