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UN Guterres Pushed Out
Controller Bartsiotos For
Matsuura-Mueller Sources Say
Viotti May Leave
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
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UNITED NATIONS,
August 23 – The UN on July 26
misleadingly put the amount it
is owed for its regular budget
at $810 million. The real
number for “Outstanding
Regular Budget” in the UN's
internal Status of
Contributions website, as of
July 26, is $1,286,496,899.22,
Inner City Press exclusively
reported, even after being
roughed up by UN Security
while covering the Budget
Committee meetings on July 3
and banned since - now for
life - by Secretary General
Antonio Guterres and his
Global Censor Alison Smale.
See Status of Contributions
printout, exclusive, here
on Scribd; if any problem, here via Patreon.
Inner City
Press explusively reported on
August 7 that Guterres'
Controller Bettina
Tucci
Bartsiotas was
leaving her post - very
genteely given another one in
Italy - according to an email
sent late August 6 by
Guterres' head of management
and harassment Jan Beagle, and
leaked to still banned Inner
City Press, below. Since then
Inner City Press has been
multiply informed that Bartsiotas
was
deemed non supportive of
Guterres reforms and therefore
was sidelined in January and
February and is now being
replaced only after "Guterres
found somewhere to dump her."
The sources say Guterres "has
already decided on a
replacement but was told to at
least advertise it to make it
look like a competitive
choice." And now Inner City
Press is exclusively informed
by sources of to whom Guterres
is improperly giving or
directing the Controller post,
even before any fig-leaf
adertising of it: Kumiko
Matsuura-Mueller, formerly of
UNHCR (like Guterres) and
currently on the board of the
UN Federal Credit Union, of
which Inner City Press has
previously reported in
connection with short-changing
UN national staff in Sudan,
and doing business with North
Korea. Inner City Press
would have liked to get an
answer from Guterres'
spokespeople. But they and
Guterres have not only had
Inner City Press roughed up
and now banned for life -
despite Alison Smale's false
claims to GAP on July 19 and
in her ghoulish lifetime ban
letter of August 17 that
e-mailed questions would be
answered, not one of Inner
City Press' six questions
submitted on August 20 has
been answered. This is how
corrupt Guterres has made the
UN, exemplified too by having
a lone critical journalist
roughed up and banned for
life. This too: other sources
tell Inner City Press that
"Maria Viotti is leaving
because things are not working
out between her and Guterres."
If so, that would reflect well
on her. Though in terms of
censorship, she passed the
buck on a call of concern
about Guterres' censorship of
Inner City Press down to
Spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
who is not only a censor but
now the one who previews,
predicts and arranges the
roughing up of the Press. This
UN has become lawless and
disgusting. Here is the
sanitized email on behalf of
Jan Beagle:
"From: Michelle
Claudio
Sent: Monday, 06 August, 2018
4:01 PM
Subject: Message from Ms. Jan
Beagle,
Under-Secretary-General for
Management
Dear colleagues,
I am writing to inform you
that the Controller, Ms.
Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas, is
relocating to Europe for
family reasons. She will
become Acting Director of the
United Nations Interregional
Crime and Justice Research
Institute (UNICRI), in
Turin.
The post of Controller will be
advertised. Meanwhile Mr.
Chandramouli Ramanathan,
Assistant Secretary-General
for Enterprise Resource
Planning, will serve as Acting
Controller, effective 1
September 2018.
Best regards
Jan
Under-Secretary-General
for Management
United Nations"
Call it,
The Italian Job. How very nice
- as was handing the UN
Security Council website to
the husband of the chief of
staff of Rosemary DiCarlo of
the Department of Political
Affairs, a nepotism scandal of
which the Office of Internal
Oversight Services has now
been apprised, since Guterres'
office didn't even refer it to
OIOS when Inner City Press
exclusively reported it online
then informed Guterres and
Alison Smale in a June 25
letter seeking protection for
harassment - which only grew
worse. We'll have more on
this.
Inner City Press was banned
from the July 26 UN noon
briefing where Secretary
General Antonio Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
made this claim, and so could
not ask questions. It
submitted five questions, only
one of which was partially
answered.
Inner City
Press has been banned from the
UN since July 3, when while it
was covering the UN Budget
Committee meeting as it has
for years its reporter was roughed
up by UN Security
Lieutenant Ronald E. Dobbins
and another officer the UN
still refuses to name.
In
front of UN Department of
Management official Christian
Saunders (previously embroiled
in a UN procurement scandal)
Inner City Press' reporter was
physically removed from the
UN. After filing a New York
City Police Department
criminal report on July 4,
Inner City Press was blocked
by UN Security from entering
the building on July 5, and
has been banned for 23 days
since.
Guterres, who was informed
on June 25 that Lt Dobbins was
targeting Inner City Press
which has published a
similarly leaked UN document
calling into question his and
others' promotions in UN
Security, refused
on July 20 to answer why Inner
City Press is banned, and set
off on a two week vacation,
location undisclosed.
(Tellingly, insiders quoting
Guterres' letter but not the
actual numbers did not mention
he is on vacation.) Guterres declined
to speak to the Frontline
documentary on UN
peacekeepers' rapes that aired
on July 24.
Exclusive:
UN Claims It's Owed $810M But Real
Number Is 1,286 Billion Inner City
Press Learns While Banned by Matthew
Russell Lee on Scribd
On July 13
as Inner City Press worked
outside the UN on the bus stop
bench on 45th Street and First
Avenue in front of the UN
Delegates Entrance it was
informed by a source that “the
US has stopped paying its dues
and Guterres is asking for 5%
cut all around” Being banned
from the building Inner City
Press has been trying to
confirm and expand on this,
being told by another source
that “I have heard that there
are important Member States
that have delayed payments
(US, Japan, Brazil, Mexico for
instance) and that evidently
do create a cash challenge.”
We'll have more on this - and
on Guterres' ongoing
censorship.
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