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UNSC President France Burundi Crocodile Tears While Silent on UN Rapes and Censor Guterres

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, June 22 – In the United Nations from which SG Antonio Guterres has banned Inner City Press 720 days for asking about his complicity in the killing of civilians in Cameroon and their mass imprisonment by China in Xinjiang, on June 1 French Ambassador Nicolas de Riviere (and July's president German Ambassador Christoph Heusgen) held a censored online press conference about the coming month(s) in the Security Council.

  Now on June 22, with France still silent on its ally Cameroon killing journalist Sam Wazizi (French UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric de la Riviere won't even take the questions, including about his role in working with Sri Lanka war criminal Palitha Kohona and UNCA to oust Inner City Press, story here, Kohona here), this was put out by Nicolas de Riviere on Burundi: "The members of the Security Council took note of the final results of the presidential and legislative elections, as declared on 4 June by the Constitutional Court of Burundi, and the swearing in of President Ndayishimiye on 18 June in a peaceful transition of power following the untimely death of President Nkurunziza.     They welcomed the broadly peaceful conduct of the elections. They stressed the importance of pursuing national unity, political inclusiveness and peacebuilding and encouraged all parties to continue to promote a peaceful atmosphere among all Burundians. In that regard, they echoed the call of the President of the AU Commission, calling for an inclusive engagement of all Burundian political and social actors in addressing the challenges facing the country, in a spirit of tolerance and with the best interests of the nation at heart, in order to create the conditions for the country’s development.     They welcomed the commitment of the UN towards long-term stability and sustainable development in Burundi and reiterated their full commitment to, and support of, the people of Burundi." Nothing on UN peacekeepers' rapes, including of children, just like on June 19 not a word about the cholera the UN brought, killing 10,000 Haitians.  We'll have more on this. Here was Inner City Press' video when it covered the Security Council's mid 2017 trip to Haiti, before it was roughed up by corrupt Guterres' UN Security and banned now 717 days.

  On June 1 they took questions only from pre-screened in-house correspondents, ignoring or even pretending not to see a question about Cameroon by Inner City Press. Twitter here, Periscope here.

 Neither said a word about the slaughter in Cameroon; they did not answer Inner City Press on-line question about new cases of UN sex abuse, including a child rape in South Sudan by UNMISS data dumped by the UN on June 1.

  The Program belatedly went up - with countries on which the two ambassadors ignored and censored questions: DRC, Mali, South Sudan. We'll have more on this.

  Back on February 3, before Coronavirus hit New York (but after the first cases covered up in Wuhan in December 2019) Belgian Ambassador Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve held an in person but also friends-only press conference about his upcoming month as Security Council president, with few questions on Africa. Program of Work tweeted by Inner City Press here.

  Belgium, of course, oversaw the colonialism and killing in the Congo. Its mission to the UN,in 2018 and since, did not respond to Inner City Press' formal communications about Guterres having it roughed up and banned. Still the Mission and Ambassador pontificate about press freedom and even the safety of journalists.

  The next, such as it was, is that Jared Kushner will brief the Security Council behind closed doors on February 6 at noon, when Guterres' spokes- / hatchetman Stephane Dujarric holds his noon briefing will refusing all questions from Inner City Press despite an on camera promise.

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