| Niger As
UNSC President Flouted the Law As Norway
Now Does, From ICTR to GMax
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Jan 1 –
While Niger was president of
the UN Security Council in
December 2021, it thumbed its
nose to the UN's own Criminal
Tribunal on Rwanda.
First it said it would take in
freed defendants, including at
least four who were found not
guilty: acquitted by the
ICTR, including Protais
Zigiranyirazo, Francois-Xavier
Nzuwonemeye, former commander
of an elite battalion,
ex-transport minister Andre
Ntagerura and Prosper
Mugiraneza, former civil
service minister.
Then
it ordered them to leave
Niger, presumably to Rwanda,
and said they won't comply
with the ICTR's second
order. This is the state of
international "law" under UNSG
Antonio Guterres, who has
banned Inner City Press from
the UN, now contrary to much
said in this
December 20, 2021 UN
Appeals Tribunal Order,
story here.
A fish rots from the head.
Coming
next in the UNSC? Norway,
which has refused to answer
Inner City Press' questions
about its Ambassador Mona
Juul's connections to indicted
pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and
now convicted procurer
Ghislaine Maxwell. Inner City
Press has asked for access to
Norway's January 4 press
conference taking over from
Niger. After two days,
nothing. We'll have more on
this.
Back on November
30 Inner City Press wrote to
the Niger Mission to the UN to
request access to its December
1 press conference by
Ambassador Abdou Abarryon.
Inner City
Press wrote to the Mission
including at nigermission [at]
ymail [dot] com
More than a day
later, nothing - inconsistent,
to say the least, with Niger's
duty as President of the UN
Security Council.
Their
"program of work" has NOTHING
on Cameroon or Nigeria, but
small arms and exclusion. No
Burma, no Haiti - and nothing
at all, from December 21 on.
We will be covering this
month, censored or not, in
detail.
Inner City Press
covered the UN and UNSC under
Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon
then was thrown out under
Antonio Guterres after asking
him directly about [among
other things including
Cameroon,] the omission
from his financial disclosure
covering 2016 of his link,
through Lisbon's Gulbenkian
Foundation which paid him
money, to convicted UN briber
CEFC China Energy.
This was and is a
legitimate journalistic
question however Inner City
Press has been banned by
Guterres and his USG Melissa
Fleming.
There is no
commitment by the UN
Secretariat to even respond to
a polite law firm letter
seeking access to Inner City
Press, see video.
See also Press
Freedom Tracker and The
Independent (UK)
The Niger Mission
and Niger have a duty to not
collude in censorship, and to
take questions from media.
Inner City Press is permitted
(in fact, invited) to put
WebEx questions to the IMF
briefings, see below, and is
accredited at the SDNY Federal
court here in New York.
So it is up to
Niger and the Niger Mission to
provide access.
Watch this
site.
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