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By Matthew Russell Lee, Periscope, song, II

UN GATE, July 1 – 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.

 Now at the cusp of June and July 2020, with Germany taking over the UN Security Council for July, Polisario announces that "In my letter to Security Council President, I underlined that the well-documented complicity between Moroccan military and drug lords is what explains the frequent smuggling of tons of Moroccan-produced cannabis across the Moroccan military wall in Western Sahara.  Morocco, therefore, should explain to the UN and the international community how it is possible that drug traffickers are able to pass unchecked through the occupied Western Sahara that is entirely encircled by one of the most heavily manned and militarized walls in the world."

  No one asked Germany's Ambassador Heusgen about this - or Cameroon, or other colonialism impacted parts of Africa - in his July 1 press conference that Inner City Press was banned from. Nor has the German mission answered at least two emails from Inner City Press in the past 10 days. We'll have more on this.

  On April 9 amid the Coronavirus pandemic in which Saharawi political prisoners are still trapped in Moroccan jails, the UN Security Council met even more secretly than usual; Belgium, to which Inner City Press directed a question, did not answer. But the Morocco state media which Guterres accredits to the UN and his spokesman's bogus briefings while banning Inner City Press lied, according to South Africa Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lungu Ngquelele: "an article that was published online in ‘mapnews.ma’, which translated into English is the ‘Moroccan Press Agency’, has put out a misleading report on South Africa’s and indeed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) recent debate on the occupied territory in the Western Sahara.” That these state media lie is obvious - but Guterres' role in orchestrating colonial lies, from Western Sahara to Cameroon, and censoring and banning independent Press and refusing its questions, is decisive. Here are just some of the Morocco state media Guterres and Melissa Fleming let in, and Steph Dujarric answers, from the UN Censorship Alliance (UNCA) --

Enhari Naoufal Moroccan News Agency (MAP) UN correspondent United Nations Secretariat Building Room S-0419 New York NY 10017 enharinaoufal@gmail.com Tel: 917-530-2673

Benyoussef Bouchra Quid.MA  Tel: (212) 758-6461 Mobile: (201) 873-5656 www.quid.ma @b.bouchra2001 -- "does not exist" (also a UN staff member - incredible)

There are more, and there will be more. Guterres should be fired.

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