In
Western Sahara
Guterres' Rep
Ivanko Saga
Series
Continues as A
Fish Rots from
the Head
By Matthew
Russell Lee, song,
II,
song
II
UN GATE, June 15
-- On
Western
Sahara, Inner
City Press has
repeatedly
asked UN
Secretary General
Antonio
Guterres, his
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric and
Communications
chief Melissa
Fleming
about sexual
harassment
charges
against his representatives,
which it has
exclusively
reported as
credited here
and even here.
On
August 27,
2021 Guterres
after
massive delay
gave the
MINURSO post
to Alexander
Ivanko of the
Russian
Federation, who
previously
served as
Director of
Public
Information
for the United
Nations
Mission in
Kosovo - where
when, before
Guterres
ousted it,
Inner City
Press asked Ivanko
five
questions,
four of which he
essentially
no-commented
on, here.
Inner City
Press was
contacted by
UN
whistleblowers
outraged at what they
said was
already
a pro-Morocco scandal
at MINURO under -
literally -
Ivanko. They told
Inner City
Press that
Ivanko has
struck up a
predatory relationship
with a Moroccan
woman who was
recruited into
MINURSO by
now-rewarded predator Colin
Stewart.
Inner
City Press put
this question- to
all UN spokespeople.
Nothing.
So now
on June 15,
2024 the series
resumes, with
more to come:
The UN
Security
Council met
not so long
ago to review
the UN SG’s
Report on
Western Sahara
and renew the
mandate of
MINURSO.
Guterres is
praying no one
raises the
issue of his
Special
Representative
and Head of
Mission, Alex
Ivanko, and
his
relationship
with a
Moroccan (now
former, as far
as we know)
sex-worker.
Ivanko
is a curious
case of a
Ukrainian who
wound up with
a Russian
passport
because his
father lived
in Moscow. His
late father,
Sergei (during
his brief
appointment to
a UN position
in the
Archives at NY
HQ during the
Cold War), was
Kofi Annan’s
supervisor
back when Kofi
was starting
out in the UN,
and no doubt
this
connection
helped Alex
land his first
UN job as
UNPROFOR
spokesperson
in Bosnia
1993.
Funnily
enough, Ivanko
until recently
claimed he
hasn't been
back to Russia
in over 30
years for fear
his activities
in the Balkans
(Bosnia first,
and then
Kosovo in the
90s and early
2000s) in
support of
NATO may land
him in
trouble. Or so
he says… Yet
somehow the
Russian
Government
supported his
appointment as
SRSG for
Western Sahara
in 2021 and
now he's
visited Moscow
twice?! And
he's about to
go again -
watch this
site.
Guterres'
role in
orchestrating
colonial
lies, from
Western Sahara to Cameroon,
and censoring
and banning independent
Press and
refusing its
questions, is
decisive. Here
are just some
of the Morocco
state media
Guterres and
Melissa
Fleming let
in, and Steph
Dujarric
answers, from
the UN Censorship
Alliance
(UNCA) --
Enhari
Naoufal
Moroccan News
Agency (MAP)
UN
correspondent
United Nations
Secretariat
Building Room
S-0419 New
York NY 10017
enharinaoufal@gmail.com
Tel:
917-530-2673
Benyoussef
Bouchra
Quid.MA
Tel: (212)
758-6461
Mobile: (201)
873-5656
www.quid.ma
@b.bouchra2001
-- "does not
exist" (also
a UN staff
member -
incredible)
There
are more, and
there will be
more. On June
15, 2024
tellingly the
UNCA
website was down:
"There has
been a
critical error
on this
website." A
fish rots from
the
head.
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