On
Libya With SG Guterres Missing
France Calls UNSC Meeting With
Press Banned
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Periscope,
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UN GATE, August
10 – Amid
the UN
Security
Council's
days-long
failure to
even issue
elements to
the press
about the
airstrike on
the detention
center in
Libya back in
July, and UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres'
typically
empty
statement
while on a
junket, on
July 5 before
Guterres'
spokesperson
Stephane
Dujarric's UN
Spokesperson's
Office sent
anything out
his partner in
censorship Al
Jazeera
reported a
UNSC press
statement.
Banned Inner
City Press noted
it - then the
French
mission, not
the president
of the Council
for July 5,
tweeted it,
echoed by
France 24.
Now on August
10 France has
called an
emergency UN
Security
Council
meeting. Inner
City Press,
still banned
from entering
the UN by
Guterres now
for 403 days
went to check
it out. There
was no one in
the $15
million
mansion
Guterres
sometimes
lives in, here (he's
been missing
for a week);
Inner City
Press cannot
enter the UN
(UN gate Periscope
here),
but there was
only one
person at 4:30
pm at the UNSC
stakeout.
Tweeted photo
here.
Then
this, an empty
statement from
an absentee
censor UNSG:
"The
Secretary-General
condemns in
the strongest
terms the car
bomb attack
today in
Benghazi,
Libya. Two
United Nations
colleagues
were killed in
the bombing
and three
others are
among the
injured.
The
Secretary-General
extends his
deepest
condolences to
the bereaved
families and
wishes a swift
recovery to
all the
injured. He
calls on the
Libyan
authorities to
spare no
effort in
identifying
and swiftly
bringing to
justice the
perpetrators
of this
attack.
The
Secretary-General
calls on all
parties to
respect the
humanitarian
truce during
Eid al Adha
and return to
the
negotiating
table to
pursue the
peaceful
future the
people of
Libya
deserve.
Stéphane
Dujarric,
Spokesman for
the
Secretary-General
New York, 10
August 2019."
We'll have
more on this.
From
July, more
detail on one
of the
victims: a
Bangladesh
national has
been killed
while another
went missing
in the
airstrike at a
detention
centre for
migrants near
the Libyan
capital of
Tripoli early
Wednesday.
ASM Ashraful
Islam, labour
counsellor of
the Bangladesh
Embassy in
Libya, only
identified the
deceased as
Shahjalal from
Madaripur.
''The body
will be sent
to Bangladesh
as soon as
possible after
necessary
formalities,''
he
said.
Meanwhile, the
news of death
and missing
spread a
curtain of
gloom at
Dakkhin
Khagchhara
village of
Mostofapur
union in
Madaripur
sadar
upazila.
The family of
the deceased
said they came
to know about
the death by
Shahjalal's
cousin Jewel
Kazi who along
with Shahidul
Islam,
brother-in-law
of Shahjalal,
was also
staying at the
detention
centre during
the air
strike.
Jewel talked
to the family
over mobile
phone on
Thursday
afternoon.
The family
said Jewel was
also injured
in the strike
and was
undergoing
treatment at a
hospital in
Libya. Jewel
reported that
Shahidul was
missing after
the
airstrike.
Also Read- UN:
At least 44
killed as air
strike hits
Libya migrant
detention
centre
Shahjalal
Kazi, father
of a
7-year-old
daughter,
Jewel and
Shahidul left
Bangladesh for
Italy in May
by paying an
amount of Tk12
lakh each to a
local broker
named Nasir
Shikder. They,
however, were
detained by
Libyan
authorities
and kept in a
migration
detention
centre later
on.
Shahidul’s
brother Azizul
Islam demanded
the broker
Nasir be
punished for
endangering
the lives of
his brother
and two
others,
saying: “We
have not been
able to
contact them
ever since
they left.
Nasir had been
telling us for
the past few
days that
Shahidul has
reached Italy,
and if we pay
him Tk2 lakh
more, he will
find a way for
us to contact
him.
“Nasir has
been asking
for more money
from all three
of our
families. He
needs to be
questioned by
the law
enforcement
agency,” he
added.
But there is
an
accountability
in this filed,
nor in
Guterres' UN.
Guterres
claims he has
a zero
tolerance
policy on
sexual
harassment,
but continues
to reward UN
officials who
are charged
with
harassment.
Inner City
Press
previously reported
on Guterres
promoting his
official
Fabrizio
Hochschild
Drummond of
Chile, after
sexual
harassment in
his own 38th
floor office,
to "Special
Adviser of the
Secretary-General
on the
Preparations
for the
Commemoration
of the United
Nations’ 75th
Anniversary."
Now Inner City
Press, banned
from the UN by
Guterres for
362 days,
had
exclusively reported
on another
reward being
fulled in
Guterres'
world of
double-speak,
harassment and
hypocrisy, see
below.
Guterres' is a
hypocrisy
without
borders. Today
after flying
to the UAE he
has issued
this, ending
with countries
on which
hydrocarbon
rich UAE is
causing
civilian death
(Sudan, Libya,
Yemen) - " The
Secretary-General
held separate
meetings today
with H.H.
Sheikh
Mohammed bin
Zayed Al
Nahyan, Crown
Prince of the
Emirate of Abu
Dhabi and
Deputy Supreme
Commander of
the United
Arab Emirates
Armed Forces;
H.H. Sheikh
Abdullah bin
Zayed bin
Sultan Al
Nahyan,
Minister of
Foreign
Affairs and
International
Cooperation of
the United
Arab Emirates;
and H.E. Mr.
Mohammed bin
Abdullah Al
Gergawi,
Minister of
Cabinet
Affairs and
the Future of
the United
Arab
Emirates.
The
Secretary-General
expressed his
appreciation
to the United
Arab Emirates
for hosting
the Climate
Preparatory
Meeting and
for its strong
support in
mobilizing
international
action on
climate change
ahead of the
Climate Action
Summit in New
York in
September.
The
Secretary-General
also
recognized the
country’s
efforts to
invest in
renewable
energy,
particularly
solar
energy.
They also
discussed the
tensions in
the Gulf, as
well as those
in Libya,
Yemen and
Sudan."
Hypocrisy
without
borders.
Colin Stewart
is accused of
sexual
harassment,
covered up by
Guterres
official to
protect yet
another
official - and
Steward is
about to have
his UN
contract
extended at
head of
MINURSO,
another of
Guterres'
failing
peacekeeping
missions.
There is
pushback by
some UN staff
and
whistleblowers,
but these
people under
Guterres are
ignored and retaliated
against.
While Stewart
was Political
Director at
the UN Office
in Addis Ababa
the serious
charge arose.
In typical UN
fashion a
cover up
began. But the
charge
gathered force
and was soon
seen as being
inconvenient
for Stewart's
immediate
supervisor
Haile
Menkerios.
That's
when the real
cover-up team
got active,
including
Kyoko Shiotani
who Inner City
Press has
previously
shown to have
gotten her
husband an
entirely
unmerited paid
UN job on the
UN website
while serving
as chief of
staff to UN
Political
Affairs boss
Rosemary
DiCarlo.
More on
Patreon, here:
it's even
worse than it
looks...
When Inner
City Press,
after
receiving no
answers to its
questions from
Guterres'
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric, ran
its exclusives
about the
all-in-the-family
website
contract to
John van
Rosendaal, it
was twice
roughed up by
Guterres UN
Security
Lieutenant
Ronald E.
Dobbins and
five others
who refused to
give their
names. It has
now been
banned from
any entry of
the UN for 361
days, with its
written
questions
unanswered by
Dujarric.
Also
involved in
the sexual
harassment
cover up:
Nathalie
Ndongo-Seh,
then
Menkerios'
chief of
staff, and
Fatemeh Ziai.
Guterres' UN
is totally
corrupt,
answers to
questions and
roughs up and
bans the Press
which
asks.
Now there are
voices inside
the UN,
sources of
banned Inner
City Press,
outraged that
the absent and
bloated
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres is
about to
reward another
harasser while
spending
public money
to cultivate a
false image of
himself to try
to get a
second term. L'affaire
Colin
Stewart is
another test.
Guterres has
already failed
enough tests
to be fired or
worse. And
this one?
Watch this
site.
Downtown at
the SDNY
courthouse
which Inner
City Press now
covers daily,
Vivian Wang,
who as money
manager for
convicted UN
briber Ng Lap
Seng's South
South News
made payments
to disgraced
President of
the UN General
Assembly John
Ashe, was
given a time
served
sentence on
June 26 by
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
George B.
Daniels.
Wang's lawyers
at Goodwin
Proctor, in a
heavily
redacted
sentencing
submission,
stated that
her deceased
husband Forest
Cao "was 57
years old adn
had no known
health
problems of
medical
conditions. No
autopsy was
performed."
It
also says, as
to UN
President of
the General
Assembly John
Ashe, that
while awaiting
trial on UN
bribery
charges "his
death was
reported as
the result of
a
'weightlifting
accident'
after a
barbell
apparently
crushed his
throat."
After the
sentencing,
Inner City
Press with
covered the Ng
Lap Seng trial
before SDNY
Judge Vernon
Broderick
daily asked
Wang's lawyer
Derek A. Cohen
if he was
implying that
Forest Cao and
John Ashe were
killed, and
why he had so
heavily
redacted this
sentencing
submission.
"It
speaks for
itself," Cohen
said by the
elevators.
Likewise the
Assistant U.S.
Attorney on
the case Daniel
C. Richenthal
declined
Inner City
Press'
question about
who beyond Ng
Lap Seng Ms.
Wang had
cooperated
against.
Judge
Daniels did
not preside
over the trial
of Ng Lap
Seng. He
accepted the
government's
recommendation
of time served
with very
little
inquiry.
He said as if
by rote that
corruption of
the UN is a
serious
matter. But if
so, why should
a person who
paid bribes in
the UN get
such a light
sentence with
little public
showing of the
benefit of
their
cooperation?
Corruption has
continued at
the UN since
the
prosecution of
Ng Lap Seng,
resulting in
his four year
prison
sentence. A
second,
separately
prosecution
was brought
against
Patrick Ho of
CEFC China
Energy, an entity
which also
tried to buy
the oil
company of
Lisbon-based
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which employed
current UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres as a
compensated
board member.
Neither in the
Ho nor Ng Lap
Seng cases
where any of
the UN
Secretariat
officials
implicated in
the bribery
schemes
prosecuted.
This laxity
can be
contrasted
with another
SDNY
proceeding a
mere hour
later, in
which Judge P.
Kevin Castel
looked behind
the U.S.
Attorney's
Office's 5k1.1
cooperation
letters and
imposed jail
time on the
four siblings,
the Seggermans,
who evaded
taxes. That
underlying
case was USA
v. Little,
12-cr-647
(Castel). This
bifurcated
case is USA
v. Wang,
16-cr-495
(Daniels).
Vivi
Wang helped
bribe the UN,
and on June 26
she got a time
served
sentence for
undefined
cooperation.
Judge Castel
looked behind
the
government's
5K1.1 letter
but Judge
Daniels did
not. And the
UN continues
corrupt. Inner
City Press
will have
more, much
more, on this.
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