Ban
Empowers Spox
To Evict,
Stonewall on
Yemen, Rapes,
Burundi &
Banks In UN
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
6 -- As Ban
Ki-moon
prepares to
leave the UN,
and try to run
for president
of South
Korea, his
stated
committed to
transparency
is coming up
empty.
Ban
said he would
be disclosing
the
nationalities
of
peacekeepers
accused of
rape. But
after Ban's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric
didn't follow
through on
this on July
1, when Inner
City Press
asked in
writing on
July 5 for the
information or
just the
reasons it was
being
withheld, Dujarric
made no
response at
all.
Likewise on
July 5 Inner
City Press
asked Dujarric
about the
financing of
the
UN-facilitated,
and failing, Yemen
talks in
Kuwait,
where
delegates from
Sana'a have
had to take
out personal
loans to
participate.
No answer from
Dujarric, who
was in his
office getting
paid by global
taxpayers,
pacing by the
glassed-in
focused booth
Inner City
Press must use
to return
calls now that
Ban and his
Under
Secretary
General for
“Public
Information”
Cristina
Gallach have
evicted Inner
City Press
from its long
time UN
office, to put
in Egyptian
state media Akhbar
Al Youm's
rarely present
Sanaa Youssef,
a former UNCA
president who
never asks
questions.
Dujarric has
outright
refused to
answer about
the shifting
rationale for
Ban's
eviction,
calling
questions
about the UN's
written
justifications
to the US
Senate Foreign
Relations
Committee
and UN
Special
Rapporteurs
Kaye and Forst
mere “personal
issues.”
In
fact, Dujarric
has
participated
in falsifying
Inner City
Press'
principled
stand against
his
privatization
of the UN
Press Briefing
Room into an
“altercation”
-- the word Gallach
used in her
response
to UN Special
Rapporteur on
Freedom of
Expression
David Kaye --
and has then
refused to
answer any
questions
about it.
On July 5,
since Dujarric
has refused to
answer during
briefings,
going so far
as to walk out
of the room as
Inner City
Press asks
questions,
Inner City
Press asked
Dujarric and
his deputy in
writing:
“In an
email to Nobel
Peace Prize
winner Jose
Ramos Horta,
USG Gallach
said her
February 19
decision on
Inner City
Press was
based on an
'internal
report.'
Please confirm
the existence
of this
internal
report and
provide a copy
- to Inner
City Press -
or explain why
UN refuses to
provide a
copy. Also,
please square
or explain the
contradiction
between UN
“Note Verbale”
to US Senate
Foreign
Relations
Committee /
USUN state
that there are
no records
regarding
'closed'
meeting in the
UN Press
Briefing Room
on January 29
with USG
Gallach's
statement to
Ramos Horta
that she had
and based her
decision on an
'internal
report' - and
provide the
report, see
above.”
Dujarric
didn't answer
this question,
or even
confirm
receipt before
leaving the UN
for the day,
the next day
and maybe
more. Nor did
he answer the
simplest of
factual
financial /
DPI questions:
“With
regard to an
event in UN 1B
today, list as
'Malko
Investment
Group' with
DPI/GPU,
please state
who or what
the Malko
Investment
Group is and
what due
diligence was
done.”
No answer to
this either,
despite the
fact that the
UN's own
Office of
Internal
Oversight
Service found
that Gallach
failed to do
due diligence
before letting
now indicted
Ng Lap Seng
sponsor the
UN's slavery
memorial. To
this has Ban's
UN sunk. It
must all be
reversed.
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site.
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