| On
Western Sahara
UN Guterres
Cravenly
Apologizes For
2 Staff
Visiting
POLISARIO
Meeting
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Periscope, song,
II
UN GATE, Dec 23
– On
Western
Sahara, Inner
City Press has
repeatedly
asked UN
Secretary General
Antonio
Guterres, his
spokesmen and
now
Communications
chief Melissa
Fleming
about sexual
harassment
charges
against his representative
Colin Stewart,
which it has
exclusively
reported as
credited here
and even here.
Guterres
has refused to
answer, and on
August 30, 2019
denied
Inner City
Press access
to the UNGA week he
let dozens of
Moroccan
state media
into as he and
Fleming
continue
the ban on
Inner City
Press
supported by a
frivolous
complaint filed
against Inner
City Press'
coverage from
the UN
Security
Council
stakeout. On
Sept 16, see
"prayer" video
here.
On December 23
Guterres'
Franco-spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric
promoted in
advance that
he would speak
about MINURSO
at noon. But
it was not
to name a
replacement of
Horst Kohler.
Instead, it
was to in essence
apologize
to Morocco for
two UN
military
observers
briefly
visiting a
POLISARIO meeting.
Pathetic.
Now
more evidence
for
European hypocrisy
this time from
Spain: Spanish
shipper
Rodman has
been selling
military
vessels as
civilian ships
in an effort
to avoid arms
exports
controls.
Many of these
ships were
sent to the
Moroccan navy
between 2007
and 2010, for
use in fishing
grounds in
Western Sahara.
These Rodman
101s are
assumed to
have been
exported as
“naval
vessels” or
“naval rescue”
vessels,
although they
are equipped
with a 12.7mm
machine gun.
According to
Spanish and
European
legislation
vessels with
military
equipment are
subject to
special
procedures
when
exported.
Rodman did not
respond to
Spanish
newspaper El
Diario’s
request for
comment.
The sales of
these vessels
to Morocco are
not reflected
in the records
of military
export with
the Spanish
Ministry of
State for
Trade, nor in
the data of
the tax
authority.
Records show
that only
“maritime or
rescue ships”
were provided
to
Morocco.
What a
scam.
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