In
Cyprus US Pompeo To Visit Jan
7 While UN Peacekeepers
Inactive As Guterres Censors
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusives
I
II
III
UN GATE, Dec 30 –
After Cyprus President Nicos
Anastasiades met with UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres on 22 March 2017
Inner City Press about one of
its Cyprus exclusives
(I
II
and III)
asked
UN spokesman Farhan Haq a
question at that day's UN noon
briefing (from which for its
questions it has now been
banned for 545 days). From the
22 March 2017 UN
transcript:
Inner City Press:
On UNFICYP [United Nations
Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus],
I wanted to ask… it's been
said from here that there… I
guess UNFICYP or people here
at Headquarters are looking at
two issues: one, the
Chief Financial Officer
becoming a Cypriot citizen,
seemingly in violation of the
status of for… status of
mission agreement; and also
the… the… the filmed stealing
of watches by UNFICYP
personnel. Particularly,
on the latter, where it seems
like it's on video, what's
actually been done since this
video emerged?
Deputy Spokesman: You've
heard what we've had to say
about both of those
questions. I don't have
anything further to say at
this point. Once there's
an update, we'll provide it.
Question: Is there a
timeline?
Deputy Spokesman: Once
we're done with the process,
we'll let you know. And
if that's it...
Haq never
sent any update to Inner City
Press - and in mid 2018 the
Office of the Spokesperson
Stephane Dujarric and Alison
Smale for Antonio Guterres had
Inner City Press roughed
up and banned
from the UN.
Now on
December 30, 2019, the US
announces on on his upcoming
trip, "Secretary of State
Michael R. Pompeo will travel
to Kyiv, Ukraine; Minsk,
Belarus; Nur-Sultan,
Kazakhstan; Tashkent,
Uzbekistan; and Nicosia,
Cyprus from January 3-7... On
January 7, the Secretary will
travel to Nicosia where he
will meet with President
Anastasiades and Foreign
Minister Christodoulides to
reaffirm the robust
U.S.-Republic of Cyprus
relationship. While
there, the Secretary will also
meet with Turkish Cypriot
Leader Akinci. The
Secretary will reaffirm to
leaders of both communities
continued U.S. support for
UN-facilitated Cypriot-led
efforts to reunify Cyprus as a
bizonal, bicommunal federation
in line with UN Security
Council Resolutions."
But how
corrupt is today's UN? On
Christmas 2019, this:
Residents of the village of
Denia on Cyprus complained to
the government and United
Nations peacekeepers that
Turkish-Cypriots came into a
buffer zone and started
cultivating land belonging to
Greek-Cypriots.
Community leader Christakis
Panayiotou told reporters that
Cypriot farmers growing
products in the buffer zone
saw that tractors had arrived
with a truck and started
cultivating fields. “We
spoke to them, we notified the
UN that asked them to leave,”
he said, adding however that
as soon as the peacekeepers
left, they returned, this time
escorted by Turkish soldiers
and continued to work." Sounds
like the UN - useless. Inner
City Press will be asking
Guterres, Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming, who bans
Inner City Press, about it.
Watch this site.
The information
continues to come in, even if
Dujarric refuses to answer
written questions despite the
promise
of Smale to UNSR David Kaye
and his own on camera promise,
here.
Now on March 14, a day when
Guterres' UN physically pushed
Inner City Press out of a
"press freedom" event it was
invited to, this: "Dear Mr.
Lee. As the deadline
approaches for Mr. Husein
Moussa’s normal retirement age
of 62 in April of 2019, one
can only begin to wonder as to
why the UNFICYP Mission did
not open a vacancy for his
post. The answer of
course is simple yet
complex. The simple
answer is that Mr. Moussa has
requested to continue to work
until the age of 65 and the
mission has accepted his
request. Here’s where
the answer becomes complex
considering the following
facts: Mr. Moussa is
holding a professional post
but he does not have a
university degree. Mr. Moussa
was found guilty by the
organization of abusing the
female staff in his section.
Mr. Moussa, acquired the
citizenship of the Republic of
Cyprus (the hosting country)
losing in the process his
impartiality which in turn
resulted to his declaration as
“persona no grata” by the
Turkish Authorities. Mr.
Moussa has accepted a high
valued gift which he proudly
portrait on his Facebook page.
The gift was given by Ms.
Avgoustina Diola in aid of
their “quid pro quo”
agreement. “Quid pro quo”
agreement. Mr. Moussa offered
a temporary job to Ms.
Avgoustina Diola in UNFICYP’s
Finance Section followed by
the promise of a permanent job
with the condition that she
will use her connections in
the Republic of Cyprus in
order for him to acquire the
Cypriot citizenship. Ms. Diola
kept her part of the deal and
Mr. Moussa became a citizen of
the Republic of Cyprus. Once
Mr. Moussa became a Cypriot,
he did not honor his part of
the deal but instead of
offering Ms. Diola a permanent
job, he requested for her
temporary contract not be
renewed ever
again.
All of the above raise the
following questions: Why
is the Organization rewarding
Mr. Moussa by extending his
contract for another three
years? Did the
Organization consider the
above facts before extending
Mr. Moussa’s
contract? Is
the organization ever going to
question Mr. Moussa about his
nonexistent university
degree? How can a
Cypriot Citizen hold an
international post in
Cyprus? Is the
organization ever going to
discipline Mr. Moussa for
accepting a gift in exchange
for a favor?" No - under
Guterres it only targets the
Press that reports. Guterres
is corrupt.
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