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By Matthew Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY Post List

UN GATE, April 10 – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on 27 March 2018 lavished praise on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman now accused with respect to Jamal Khashoggi, accepting a $930 million check from the Saudis and UAE, with not a word of the Saudi led bombing campaign that has killed civilians and caused cholera in Yemen. While his team still has MOU(s) with MBS, Guterres conceals others of his financial links.

  Now alongside the first COVID-19 case confirmed in Yemen, Guterres is refusing to answer about lax social distancing practices at his mission in South Sudan, and even use by UN Security of its gym, three people at a time, contrary to New York law, Inner City Press scoops here. His UN is corrupt; here's from RSF:

"With the first case of COVID-19 confirmed in Yemen today, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on Yemeni authorities to urgently allow the entrance of supplies and humanitarian staff into the country in order to facilitate a swift response to the outbreak.     While various authorities in Yemen have taken some steps to plan for a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, five years of war has led to the collapse of the health system, making an effective response to the outbreak almost impossible unless additional resources are allowed into the country.   Despite the global shortage of PPE and tests, countries like Yemen—which are most vulnerable to the effects of a coronavirus outbreak—must not be forgotten when supplies are allocated, said MSF. Countries also need to help to facilitate the movement of humanitarian aid workers.     MSF has assisted authorities in Aden and Sanaa to set up a COVID-19 treatment center in both cities, but they are just two of a very limited number of treatment centers ready to operate in the country. Funding to pay healthcare staff is also inadequate.     The limited number of functioning hospitals and health centers in Yemen will exacerbate the spread of COVID-19 and the outbreak could become critical if additional support and measures are not facilitated quickly."

And now from Guterres' corrupt UN, these belated expressions of concern: "The Head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) and Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC), Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Abhijit Guha, is alarmed by the aerial strike that took place in Al Salif early this morning.      The RCC Chair stressed that such aerial strikes hamper the peace process and jeopardize the implementation of the Hudaydah Agreement.     The RCC Chair notes that there has been a decrease in the overall level of violence in Hudaydah over the past months but reminds the parties that the situation in the governorate remains volatile." Yeah, volatile - while Guterres takes money not only from El Chapo but El Chopper, MBS. Disgusting.

 On September 12, from the UN of Antonio "Back Door" Guterres who fled into a side door to his public mansion to avoid questions after a luxury boat cruise on September 7, this: "The Secretary-General today announced the appointment of Lieutenant General (retired) Abhijit Guha of India as the Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) and Head of the United Nations Mission in support of the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) pursuant to Security Council resolutions 2452 (2019) and 2481 (2019).     Lieutenant General (retired) Guha succeeds Lieutenant General Michael Lollesgaard, who served as RCC Chair and Head of UNMHA from 31 January to 31 July 2019." 

 On September 1, with Guterres still silent and partnering with MBS through his Youth Envoy and craven UN Correspondents Association, here, more than 100 people have reportedly been killed in an air strike by the Saudi-led military coalition on a detention center in Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Sunday. The ICRC rushed to the scene in the city of Dhamar with medical teams and hundreds of body bags. "The location that was hit has been visited by ICRC before," Rauchenstein said. We'll have more on this - and this:

Past 4 pm on Friday, August 30 the UN issued a denial of accreditation with no reasoning other than that accreditation had previously been revoked:

"From: malu <malu@un.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:23 PM
Subject: U.N. eAccreditation request for Matthew Lee Ref # M5413398 has been declined
To: Inner City Press:

Greetings Matthew Lee from Inner City Press,  Your media accreditation request, with reference no: M5413398, has been declined for the following reason: Media accreditation was withdrawn on 17 August 2018."

  This is Kafka-esque, and corrupt. We will have more, much more, on this.

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