| UN Faces Major
Cuts as UNRWA Not Immune US Says
But Guterres Bans Press that
Asks
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE /
SDNY
May 2 - The UN has been
putting off a reckoning for
103 days, with nominations
forwarded then retracted. On
May 1, Mike Walz. Will this be
it?
On May 2,
Russ Vaught's letter to
Senator Susan Collins provided
"Peacekeeping Missions -1,614
The Budget does not provide
funding for wasteful United
Nations (UN) and other
peacekeeping missions due to
recent failures and high level
of assessments. The United
States has a history of paying
for more than its fair share
of international peacekeeping
activities. Further, UN
peacekeepers have been accused
of narcotics trafficking
across multiple continents,
especially in the Central
African Republic where
peacekeepers smuggled gold,
diamonds, and drugs. Assessed
and Voluntary Contributions to
International Organizations
-1,716 The Budget pauses most
assessed and all voluntary
contributions to UN and other
international organizations,
including for the UN Regular
Budget." Guterres has wasted
money and bans the Press that
asks.
For the
UN's role in Hamas' October 7
attacks, non-US citizen
plaintiffs and estates on June
24 filed a lawsuit in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
against UNRWA, Philippe
Lazzarini, Pierre Krahenbuhl,
Filippo Grandi, Leni Stenseth,
Sandra Mitchel, Margot Ellis
and Greta Gunnarsdottir.
Inner City
Press, which daily cover the
SDNY court in-person and the
UN from outside the gate,
banned from entry by SG
Antonio Guterres, asked
Guterres' spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming about the lawsuit,
without any response per
usual.
Nor have they
responded to Inner City Press'
June 19 application
to enter the UN to ask these
questions.
And now?
Watch this site.
On February 18,
the (new) SDNY wrote in, "The
Government is currently
reviewing the views." Letter
on Inner City Press'
DocumentCloud here
On April 17 DOJ
wrote in asking for one more
week to finalize. Inner City
Press, still banned from the
UN by Antonio Guterres,
tweeted it.
On April 24 the
Administration wrote in that
it "has since reevaluated that
position, and now concludes
UNRWA is not immune from this
litigation. Nor are the bulk
of other defendants" - 10 page
filing on DocumentCloud here.
The UNRWA case is
ESTATE OF TAMAR KEDEM SIMAN
TOV, BY HEIR-AT-LAW GAD KEDEM
v. UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND
WORKS AGENCY (UNRWA) et al.,
24-cv-04765 (Torres)
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