| IMF Answers Inner City Press
on Transparency While UN Refuses Questions on
South Sudan Covid
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURT / UN
GATE, May 7 –
When the International
Monetary Fund held its
biweekly embargoed briefing on
May 7, Inner City Press
submitted questions about
transparency, Cameroon, Yemen,
Gabon, Bahamas and South
Sudan.
IMF
Spokesperson Gerry Rice to his
credit not only read out and
answered Inner City Press'
transparency question - unlike
today's UN - he answered
questions about a range of
countries in Africa, and Sri
Lanka.
Inner City
Press asked, after its
question on Cameroon, "What
does the IMF say to the
recommendation that it it
should consistently apply
transparency and
anti-corruption measures to
all loans, such as requiring
governments to conduct
independent audits and publish
procurement plans, including
the names and beneficial
owners of all companies
awarded contracts? What is the
IMF doing / hearing regarding
South Sudan, where many
COVID-19 questions are
emerging? "
Gerry Rice described the IMF's
policies now on its recent
loans (transcript and video to
follow), and described pending
requests from Egypt and Sri
Lanka, among others.
He also took
questions from a range of
journalists, unlike today's UN
Secretariat which has the same
12 state media and retirees
and pretends it has received
no other questions.
Also on May 7,
Guterres' UNMISS Mission in
South Sudan refused Press
questions about COVID-19. This
while Antonio Guterres' Deputy
Secretary General Amina J.
Mohammed bloviates about
international finance, eying a
post at the AU. We'll have
more on this.
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