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UNGA Guterres
With Portugal
Canned Readout
No Mention
Gulbenkian Bid
and Bribes
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, Sept 18
– As the UN General Assembly
without France or the UK
claimed to get underway on
Saturday, September 16, 2023
in a temporary building
wastefully built on its North
Lawn, across First Avenue
there was a Burmese rally.
Inner City Press, banned from
the UN by pro-China UNSG
Antonio Guterres, covered it.
Video here.
On Monday,
September 18, Guterres issued
canned readout including that
he "met with H.E. Mr. Marcelo
Rebelo de Sousa, President of
the Portuguese Republic. The
Secretary-General thanked the
President for Portugal’s
commitment to advancing the
implementation of the
Sustainable Development Goals,
as well as for its support to
United Nations peacekeeping."
The latter has involved some
unaddressed violence.
But the read-out
was silent on Portugal's
UNESCO bid for The Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation Head
Office and Garden 1659 D
(i)(ii)(iv)(vi). This
Gulbenkian Foundation paid
Guterres cold hard cash,
while trying to sell its oil
company to convicted bribery
firm CEFC China Energy. Inner
City Press, which coverd
CEFC's conviction in Federal
court, asked about the omission of
this money from Guterres'
financial disclosure and was
roughed up and banned, and
remains so from UNGA 2023.
The Burma rally
urged the UN to credential
NUG's Kyaw Moe Tun. But of
course they won't: China is on
the UN Credentials Committee.
And Guterres' UN
Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric
refused dozens of written
questions from Inner City
Press about the junta's plot
to kill Kyaw Moe Tun, as
prosecuted in the SDNY court
Inner City Press covers daily
since being thrown
out of the UN by
Guterres, and kept out by his
Melissa Fleming.
Fleming, as
reported, refused to response
to a June 19 application
by Inner City Press to
enter and cover this UNGA, and
then a pro bono law firm
letter.
She will,
however, apparently still give
a speech this week it costs $800
or $2000 to attend.
Today's UN is
totally corrupt.
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