As
UN Cries Poor Its Budget
Committee Fails As Guterres
Steals Away To Lisbon
Censoring
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video,
Memo
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UN
GATE, Dec 24 --
While UN Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres cries poor
and scales back
"official travel,"
he has just made
another undisclosed
trip to Lisbon paid
for the public,
using as a figleaf a
December 17-20
junket in Italy
where he called
Libya a cancer. Now
on December 21 his
schedule says "on
annual leave," until
at least January 2.
Now while he gushes
public money, the UN
Budget Committee on
December 24 failed
to meet its deadline
to vote to give him
more money. Instead
of the promised 3 pm
approval there was a
short and
shamelessly
congratulatory
statement by the
President of the
General Assembly
Tijjani
Muhammad-Bande, and
another by Andreas
Mavroyiannis of
Cyprus, the chair of
the Budget
Committee, a
position held in
2018 by Cameroon.
When Inner City
Press questioned
Cameroon's
Ambassador, about
his deal with
Guterres, it was
roughed up and has
been banned since.
The UN is corrupt,
under Guterres.
Guterres
appeared at a
concert in Lisbon on
November 9 for Carlos
do Carmo,
noted in the
Portuguese media here.
So
how much did it cost
the public, taking
UN Security there?
Where did they stay?
Inner City Press
asked on November
11, before the day's
UN noon briefing
which it is banned
from entering to
attend by corrupt
Guterres, for the
now 536th day. No
answers. Nor on
December 19 and 20
to where Guterres
was going next. He
believes the
public's money is
his.
On
November 23 Inner
City Press went to
check out the Sutton
Place mansion in
which Big Tony lives
on the public dime.
There, fully three
vans were in front.
When Inner City
Press started live
streaming, one left
and backed into a
dead end around the
corner. Finally
Guterres slipped out
though his / your
back door, like a
common criminal to
avoid questions or
legal process and
sped away. Video here.
Guterres is corrupt.
And did
Guterres only agree
to go to the Paris
Peace Forum, with
sponsor Gulbenkian
which tried to sell
its oil company to
UN briber CEFC China
Energy and whose
payments to Guterres
have been omitted
from his financial
disclosure covering
2016, as a fig leaf
for his Lisbon trip?
Will he meet
dictator Paul Biya
at the PPF? Watch
this site.
On October 14 Inner
City Press went to
check it out, from
gate. Periscopes I,
II,
III,
IV,
V,
VI,
VII.
On
October 17, even
banned from entering
the UN for the 471st
day by corrupt
Guterres, Inner City
Press can
exclusively report
that in the
closed-door October
16 meeting of the UN
Staff Union and
Controller
Chandramouli
Ramanathan, the
latter was asked
about Guterres' many
trips in 2019
specifically those
to "Portugal where
his life lives" and
what asked how that
is accountable?
Ramanathan, in
Guterres fashion,
dodged - but the
questioning
continues, until
there is
accountability.
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