With
Indonesia Atop UNSC Guterres
Was Asked About West Papua and
Dodged As On His Censorship
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, May 22 –When Indonesia
on 1 May 2019
held a press
conference
about its
upcoming month as
president of
UN Security
Council, Inner
City Press
which has
covered the
Council and
its failures
for a decade
was banned
from entering
the UN for the
301st
day by Antonio
Guterres. Now it has
hit 322 days,
as Guterres
dodges
questions
about West
Papua as he
has about his
censorship of
Press to try
to cover his
corruption.
On
Guterres'
May 2019
junket to
Vanuatu, not
asked about by
any of the
correspondents
Guterres, his
outgoing
Global Communicator
Alison
Smale and
Stephane
Dujarric allow
into the UN,
he was asked about
West Papua.
Here's
from Guterres'
response:
“There is a
framework in
the
institutions,
namely the
human rights
council… there
are special
procedures,
there was a
panel, that
recently made
a report on
those issues,
a report that
was then
presented
internationally.
Indonesia also
responded. So
the UN is
doing its job,
with a major
concern that
there and
everywhere,
human rights
are
respected.”
But,
Guterres
was told, Indonesia
is blocking
Pacific island
delegations and the
UN Human
Rights
Commission
from visiting
West
Papua. It
seems that
all
independent
international
media is
banned. Guterres
vainly
insisted,
"we had the
institutions
working, we
have a panel
of experts,
but there are
also from our
side strong
commitments
there and
everywhere.”
Total evasion, as
on the Uighurs.
On Cameroon Guterres
does more than
evade: he
actively
advised Paul
Biya's
government how
to cover up Biya's
killings by
acting against
the press.
We'll have
more on all
this.
On May
1 inside the
UN Guterres
bans Inner
City Press
from,
the first
question to
Ambassador
Dian Triansyah
Djani was
handed to one
who has falsely
puffed up Guterres
has having raised
China's abuse
of the Uighurs
to President Xi
(Guterres did
not raise it
to Xi). A
later question
went to an
insider who
said, I am
going to ask
the same
question as
everyone else.
There
was almost
nothing about
anything
in Africa,
over 60% of
the UN
Security
Council's
agenda, much
less on Cameroon
or Burundi or
Uganda, whose
foreign
minister was
bribed by the
same CEFC
China Energy
which tried to
buy the Partex
oil company of
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which has paid
Guterres.
We'll have more
on this - and
on UNSC
meetings and
negotiations,
if only from
the gate
outside.
And on
May 23, what
else, SG Antonio
Guterres'
dinner. The
UNSC Presidency
should make
information available
to those who
cover and also
to those who
are impacted
by the
Council. Watch
this site.
Inner
City Press
covered the UN
Security
Council for
ten years,
covered trips
to Sudan, DRC,
Cote d'Ivoire
and most
recently Haiti
- until
Guterres amid
questions
about his
links to UN
bribery had it
thrown out. We'll
have more,
much more, on
this - and
on Cameroon: after
Paul Biya who
has ruled
Cameroon for
36 years on
January 28 had
his opponent
Maurice Kamto
arrested,
Inner City
Press again asked UN
Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres and
his spokesmen for
their comment
and action, if
any. This came
after Guterres
had Inner City
Press roughed
up on 3
July 2018
after it
interviewed Biya's
Ambassador
about the two
men's Budget
Committee
deals and banned
from the UN
since -
Guterres even tried
to get Inner
City Press
banned from
the Park East
Synagogue,
here, which
was denied /
dodged by his
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric.
More
here.
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