| UNSG Post Bought For
Guterres By Angola dos Santos Family Hence
Luanda Leaks Silence From Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Jan 20 – When Antonio
Guterres wanted to get the
position of UN Secretary
General in 2006, he needed
money and political support.
He found it in long time
Angola dictator and kleptocrat
Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
Now Guterres refuses to answer
Press questions about the
Luanda Leaks scandal, and
about his close Angolan
staffer Aguinaldo Baptista's
online support for Isabel
dos Santos. Guterres has
roughed up and banned
Inner City Press which asks
the questions.
On March
17, 2016 Angolan state media reported
that "José Eduardo dos Santos
Thursday in Luanda was
informed on the process of
candidacy of António Manuel de
Oliveira Guterres to the post
of the UNSG. Antonio Guterres,
who served as Portuguese prime
minister, said he presented a
program of his candidacy for
the world body’s top
position. 'It is very
important for me to have
Angola at the very beginning
of this candidacy, as I am an
old friend and
admirer."
Dos
Santos, flush with oil money,
controlled more embassies and
strings throughout Africa than
did Guterres' Portugal.
Guterres' son Pedro Guimarães
e Melo De Oliveira Guterres'
untold business
links in Lusophone
countries include Angola.
Guterres' oil connections were
not limited to Angola: he was
getting paid by Lisbon based
Gulbenkian Foundation which in
terms was turned by oil
company Partex, with business
in Angola, that UN
briber CEFC China Energy
in turn tried to
buy.
Inner City Press asked about
this, and was roughed
up by Guterres' UN
Security and banned from
entering the UN. Guterres'
designated censor Melissa
Fleming has continued this
ban, with no appeals process.
His spokesman Stephane
Dujarric said
he would answer written
question from banned Inner
City Press.
But here's
one of the hundreds of questions
from Inner City Press that
Guterres and his spokespeople
have refused to answer: "On
corruption and Angola, what
are the comments and actions
if any of SG Guterres on the
Luanda Leaks exposure of
Isabel dos Santos of Angola,
and as Inner City Press has
repeatedly asked, what are his
comments and action on the
repeated
retweeting of Isabel dos
Santos' denials by his close
staffer Aguinaldo Baptista?
After, for example, exposure
of the corrupt urban
development project near
Luanda for which some 3,000
families were driven from
their homes to make way for
the development?"
No answer at all, and those
whom Guterres, Fleming and
Dujarric allowed into their
noon press briefing on January
20 did not ask about Luanda
Leaks, or anything in Africa.
It's Guterres' big scam. And
it must be ended. Watch this
site.
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