UN
Calls 5000 People In For
Interviews, Then Nevermind, UN
As Guterres' Private Club, Some
Say
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
May 7 – While UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres flies
around the world, always in
first class, while restricting
the Press which asks
questions, most recently from
his Lusophone garden party at
the UN on May 5, the
Organization is in decline.
Beyond the killing for example
of 10,000 people Haiti with
cholera negligently
introduced, and no
accountability, a smaller most
recent example. Five thousand
people who despite the above
wanted to work for the UN
through the Young Professional
Program were told on May 3 to
come in for interviews. Then
on May 4 they were told,
nevermind. Both emails were
sent to Inner City Press by
people impacted and upset. The
"mea culpa" reads, "From:
DM-OHRM-YPP2017
Sent: Friday, 04 May, 2018
2:44 PM
On 3 May 2018 (New York time)
you might have received an
email from ypp2017 [at] un.org
regarding the results of the
2017 YPP MAGNET examination.
Unfortunately, the message was
sent in error. It incorrectly
invited all applicants to the
oral examination regardless of
the written exam result.
Kindly disregard the message.
We will shortly send you a
message based on the actual
result of your written exam.
Given the volume of
applicants, notifications will
be sent in a staggered manner.
We sincerely apologize for the
error and any inconvenience or
confusion it may have caused.
Please check your email and
the Careers Portal "Important
Updates" regularly.
Sincerely, Norbert
Bromme
Chief, Examinations and Tests
Section." Five thousand
people. The countries in the
Young Professional Program are
Afghanistan, Andorra, Angola,
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain,
Belarus, Belize, Brazil,
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia,
Cape Verde, Central African
Republic, China, Comoros,
Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic
People's Republic of Korea,
Dominica, Equatorial Guinea,
Gabon, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau,
Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan,
Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos,
Lesotho, Liberia, Libya,
Liechtenstein, Luxembourg,
Marshall Islands, Micronesia,
Monaco, Mozambique, Nauru,
Norway, Oman, Palau, Papua New
Guinea, Poland, Qatar, Russia,
Saint Lucia, Samoa, Sao Tome
and Principe, Saudi Arabia,
Seychelles, Solomon Islands,
South Sudan, St Vincent and
the Grenadines, Suriname,
Syria, Thailand, Timor-Leste,
Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, United
Arab Emirates, United States,
Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam.
Haiti, you'll notice, is not
eligible, but Saudi Arabia for
example is. The UN Media Alert
for May 5 listed a “Portuguese
Language Day Celebration;”
when Inner City Press asked
the spokesman for UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres it
was told there would be remarks
by Guterres, who is
increasingly rarely in New
York. Events in the UN Media
Alert are open to all
journalists - but in today's
UN, rules mean little.
On May 5 UN
Security stopped Inner City
Press saying, No, I know who
you are. Another UN Security
Officer asked, Why don't you
like the UN? Haiti cholera impunity
came to mind, or UN Security
Deputy Chief McNulty throwing
Inner City Press' laptop on
the sidewalk when it was
evicted (audio here)
for covering an event in the
UN Press Briefing Rule - also
ostensibly open to all
journalists.
On My 5
while UN Security was focused
on making it impossible for
Inner City Press to do its
job, they allowed children,
presumably Lusophone, to play
on the UN's slavery memorial,
which its Department of Public
Information took money for
from now convicted UN briber
Ng Lap Seng, even according to
the UN's own audit.
The UN was turned into Antonio
Guterres' Lusophone garden
party. Any number of state
media, like rarely present
Egyptian Akhbar al Yom to
which DPI under Alison Smale
continues to assign Inner City
Press' long time work space
to, could enter and cover the
event without no interaction
much less blocking by UN
Security. (Smale retweeted
Guterres' Portuguese language
self celebration, here
- but could not or would not
assure that the Press could
cover the event, in the Media
Alert, and has not in eight
months responded to 5000
signature petitions
and request for reinstatement
and rules).
The May 5
targeting of Inner City Press
-- "I know who you are" -- is
allowed by downgrading and
keeping down Inner City Press
as "non resident
correspondent," while giving
full resident correspondent
status to no-show state media
like Akhbar al Yom's Sanaa
Youssef who has not asked the
UN a question in more than a
decade. Inner City Press, by
contrast, is required to have
a minder. But the UN is a
place now of targeted
censorship - the cancellation
by the UN Alliance of
Civilizations is just the most
recent example. We'll have
more on this.
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