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Killings in Sudan Tony
Helps His Cronies as US
Brags of Work With Saudis
No Real Deal
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, May 11 –
As the military and
paramilitary Rapid Support
Forces shoot it out in
Khartoum and its airport, the
United Nations (which has
taken and wasted billions from
the public under Antonio
Guterres, in Sudan as
elsewhere) has been useless.
On April 24,
Guterres in a UN Security
Council meeting chaired by
Sergei Lavrov bloviated, "I
have authorized the temporary
relocation both inside and
outside Sudan of some United
Nations personnel, and of
families." As in Haiti,
Afghanistan and elsewhere,
local UN staff are left in the
lurch. Today's UN is all about
#TonysCronies.
On May 11,
two Senior US State Department
Officials (1 and 2) bragged
about their work with the
Saudis on a statement of
commitment to humanitarian
principles, not a ceasefire.
They were asked about
criticism even from Jeffrey
Feltman, and disagreed, while
citing worke with the quad
(initially misidentified as
the quartet; IGAD was called a
meaningless name).
Official 1
said not to expect compliance;
Official 2 called it the
hardest thing worked on. The
UN, tellingly, was barely
mentioned; nor was the Saudis'
grinding up of journalist
Khashoggi.
Inner City Press, which before
Guterres' reign of censorship
was in the UN, and accompanied
and covered a UN Security
Council mission to Khartoum
and Juba, recently asked
Guterres' spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming:
"On Sudan,
what are the comments and
actions if any of SG Guterres
on that Sudanese security
forces in the capital have
fired tear gas and stun
grenades to disperse thousands
of people protesting against
military rule. The
demonstrators marched towards
the presidential palace but
were chased away by police.
They dismissed a deal signed
recently between the military
and civilians, saying it was
too vague."
No answer
at all.
In
New York,
spokesman-censor
Dujarric read
a statement in
response to
softball
questions
(video here),
while refusing
Inner City
Press' written
questions,
which he'd
promised to
answer, here.
Inner City
Press has appealed
its ban, to UN Security boss
Gilles Michaud as PGA
President Csaba Korosi's
spokesperson Paulina Kubiak directed.
Still, no answer.
So how can a US
journalists with an NYC Press
Press, invited to briefings
from the IMF to the DOJ,
remain barred from even
entering the UN like a
tourist? Since the UN won't
answer, you'd have to asked
USUN - or Bass or McPhee.
More on Substack
here.
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