| US Is Grilled On WHO and
Cites UNDP Which Played Role In Spreading
COVID in South Sudan
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
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PFT
UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, May 4 – The U.S. State
Department held a media
Q&A on May 4 and half of
the questions understandably
were about the US not
participating in the day's
vaccine conference, and moving
to de-fund the World Health
Organization.
But
the Senior State Department
Officials' responses,
characterized by most as
evasive, were also surprising
in this way: one of them said
that instead of WHO, the US is
using UNICEF and UNDP, the UN
Development Program.
This
shows a lack of attention.
Even the UK's DFID recently
concluded UNDP is self-serving
(denying resident coordinators
access to their cars) and
ineffective. Inner City Press
can add that UNDP
has played a role in the
spreading of COVID-19 in South
Sudan, and its boss Achim
Steiner has refused written
questions abou it. (UNICEF has
been involved in covering
up UN Peacekeeping's
sexual abuse of children in
the Central Africa Republic,
for example, claiming to have
provided victims' assistance
it never did).
We'll have more on this, on World
Press Freedom Day when
the UN of Antonio Guterres
bans Inner City Press, even
from its Zoom rooms, for the
671st day.
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