UNITED NATIONS
GATE, April
22
– Inner City Press on
July 5 was banned from
entering the UN, the day
after it filed a
criminal complaint
against UN Security for
physically removing it
from covering the
meeting about the UN
Secretary General
Antonio Guterres' $6.7
billion peacekeeping
budget, as witnessed and
essentially cheered on
by senior UN official
Christian Saunders,
tearing its reporter's
shirt, painfully and
intentionally twisting
his arm and slamming
shut and damaging his
laptop. On August 17,
Guterres' Global
Communicator Alison
Smale issued a letter
banning Inner City Press
from the UN - for life.
With no due process. She
and Guterres have put
the UN in the US Press
Freedom Tracker, here.
Smale said,
again, that the UN would
answer Press questions
to the Spokesman
Stephane Dujarric and
his Office; Dujarric said the
same on
camera.
On April
22 more
than three
hours
before Dujarric
held a UN
noon briefing where
without explaining
where Guterres is he
confirmed what Inner
City Press had
reported and
asked, that he
will go sing for
his supper
at the Belt and
Road shindig in
Beijing until April
27, Inner
City Press submitted
738 questions, including why
it continues to be
lawlessly banned
from entering to ask
questions in person:
"There are more
than 400+
questions UNanswered.
And Monday Sept 17,
Tuesday Sept 18, Wed
Sept 19 and Thurs
and Fri Sept 21, that
whole week, no questions
answered. Nor Sept 25,
nor 28th - nor October 2
nor 3. While
appreciating and using
what was sent on March
28 in partial request to
Inner City Press'
questions about the UN
bribery sentence of
Patrick Ho of CEFC and
CEFC's 2018 attempt to
buy the oil company of
Gulbenkian Foundation
which paid the SG, no
answers on Dec 17 or 18
or 19 or 20 or 21 -
another FIVE days in a
row, even as SG's direct
conflicts of interest
and failure to disclose
emerge, and a newest
low. No answers on
January 30 nor 31 nor
February 1 nor 4 nor 5
nor 6 nor 7 nor 11 nor
12 nor 13 nor 14 nor 15
nor 18 nor 19 nor 20 nor
21 nor 22 nor 25 nor 26
nor 27 nor March 1 - 27
(!) And
now April
1, 3-18.
No answers at all during
those four days of the
US v Ho trial showing
corruption in the UN
says it all. This ban is
just censorship - and
Inner City Press must be
allowed back into the
noon briefing to ask its
questions in person and
follow up on them.
April
22-1: Please immediate
state where publicly
funded SG Guterres is,
and has been since April
18, and at what cost to
the public. Separately,
confirm or deny Chinese
media report he will
attend the Belt and Road
event in China later
this week, and state
whether after the UN
bribery conviction of
Patrick Ho of CEFC, and
CEFC's attempt to
purchase the oil company
of Gulbenkian Foundation
which paid Mr. Guterres
in 2016 (omitted from
his online public
financial disclosure
covering 2016), he
intends to raise
corruption and UN
bribery issues with
China.
April
22-2: Please immediately
state where SG Guterres'
Youth Envoy is, on what
mission, and whether a
statement explicit as a
Sri Lankan, saying that
2009 was only about
suicide bombs (and not
the government's
bloodbath on the beach)
is appropriate and
supported by the SG.
Also, what is the status
of the UN's MOU with
Saudi Prince MBS's MiSK
Foundation?
April
22-3: On Sri Lanka,
AGAIN, what is the SG's
comment on the torture
lawsuit filed in Federal
court in California
against Gotabaya
Rajapaksa, and again,
why did the SG's SRSG
Singer meet with Mahinda
Rajapaka and issue no
read out? Again, confirm
or deny that as reported
she said "Sri Lanka
would be a great role
model as she has set a
great example in
achieving the SDGs set
out by the UN." Again,
since on "reform," on
March 15 it was said
that 27 new Resident
Coordinators are being
recruited and these are
not on the SG's webpage,
where are these
recruitment notices?
Does it impact Ms.
Singer? Has the resident
coordinator in the
Maldives Shoko Noda,
leaving April 30,
already had replacement
chosen? How? Who? Is it
Ms Singer, RC for "the
Indian Ocean"? Again,
please immediately state
which 27 RC positions
are being recruited for,
and how much it will
cost the UN and the
public.
April
22-4: On Uganda, what is
the SG's comment and
action if any on the
arrest, again, of Bobi
Wine by the government
of Museveni and Kutesa?
Again, Again, why has
the SG not even started
an OIOS audit of CEFC
China Energy CEFC (which
paid $500,000 to Kutesa
and tried to buy Partex
Oil Co. from Gulbenkian
Foundation), at least
like the one Mr.
Guterres' predecessor
did of Ng Lap Seng's Sun
Kian Ip Foundation? Why
did Mr Guterres omit
payments from Gulbenkian
Foundation, which sought
to sell its oil company
Partex to CEFC China
Energy, from his public
financial disclosure
covering 2016? Where are
the more recent public
financial disclosures -
has Mr. Guterres ended
that program? Why? Where
is the public financial
disclosure of, for
example, USG Alison
Smale, given how long
she has held (and
misused) the USG
position?
April
22-5: What is the status
of OIOS head Heidi
Mendoza? Is she still on
medical leave, despite
having flown to New York
for an event at the
Filipino
consulate?
April
22-6: On Liberia and
press freedom, what is
the SG's comment and
action on that Liberian
journalist and longtime
radio talk show host
T-Max Jlateh is alarmed
that there exists a plot
by high level officials
to assassinate
journalists.
Jlateh has received
strange phone calls in
which unknown
individuals have
admitted he is in line
for assassination due to
his critical stance on
the government?
What is each of yours -
particularly the SG's -
response to the letter
written and sent by
Burundi activist Manisha
Lievin? To the April 15
letter to the SG, DSG
and USG Smale for which
receipt has not even
been acknowledged, other
than a single lawless
line from MALU: "Your
media accreditation
request, with reference
no: M66561081, has been
declined"? This is a
formal request for the
UN's explanation of
grounds for this denied,
and since SGcentral, the
SG's chief of staff and
Deputy SG and USG Smale
haven't even confirmed
receipt of the April 15
letter much less
responded, for
reconsideration. AGAIN,
immediately explain how
it is legitimate to ban
from enter into the UN
the media that has been
asking about these and
other questions, with no
hearing or appeal.
April
18-1: On UN sexual
abuse and exploitation,
please immediately
provide all if-asked
further information
about the allegations
put online on April 17
regarding Burundi and
South Africa
peacekeepers and still
the Cameroon troops'
rape allegations you
have not provide any
further information on.
April
18-2: On China and
its UN Mission and the
SG's links, what are the
comments and actions if
any of the SG and
separately USG Alison
Smale (who has praised
Xiamen Airlines) to that
Ying Lin pleaded guilty
to acting as an agent of
the People’s Republic of
China (PRC), without
notification to the
Attorney General, by
working at the direction
and control of military
officers assigned to the
Permanent Mission of the
People’s Republic of
China to the United
Nations. Lin, a
former manager with an
international air
carrier headquartered in
the PRC (the Air
Carrier), abused her
privileges to transport
packages from John F.
Kennedy International
Airport (JFK Airport) to
the PRC aboard Air
Carrier flights at the
behest of the PRC
military officers and in
violation of
Transportation Security
Administration (TSA)
regulations? Can the UN
say that the air carrier
is NOT Xiamen Airlines?
What inquiry has the UN
made?
April
12-1: On Cameroon, what
is the comment and
action of the SG, beyond
the golden statue, on
that Aafarmer believed
to be in his fourties
has been attacked by
elements of the Cameroon
defence forces. The
incident occurred at the
Mile 16 neigbourhood in
Buea, South West Region
MMI has learnt. “I was
in the house waiting for
someone to come collect
oil I brought from the
farm the previous day
when I saw the door
forced open. I was asked
if I live here. I
answered with a yes, and
I was asked to show the
hideouts of Ambazonian
fighters. I told them I
don’t know the people
they are asking after
and that I’m just a
farmer. They accused me
of knowing them but I
told them I could only
recognise them as
soldiers because I can
see from their outfits
(uniforms). As I
insisted I don’t know
the whereabout of those
they are searching for,
they started beating me.
One of them proposed I
should be killed and the
other refused. They took
my machete and
repeatedly cut me on
different parts on my
body. They broke my
doors and the doors of a
neighbour who had
died?
April
4-2: On UN bribery and
censorship, what now is
the SG's comment and
response to the April
3article in Serbia about
CEFC which Mr Guterres
has refused to audit -
and about his refusal to
answer, and censorship
of Press "Gutereš had
and had his own
financial link with the
CEFC, through the
Gulbenkian Foundation.
On the orders of
Guteres, on June 22 and
July 3, 2018, the
security came to me, and
I was banned from
reporting from the UN.
In fact, Gutereš took
advantage of his
security from the UN to
distance me from his
speech at the Park East
Synagogue, and recently
physically stopped me
while he entered the
mosque in 96th
Street" and now this
- "Patrick
Ho, a businessman who
was sentenced to three
years in prison for his
role in the world's
corrupting affair,
claims investigative
journalist Matthew
Russell Li in the
documentary "Hong Kong
Connection, Patrick Ho's
List." Li, in a
documentary broadcast on
the Hong Kong
Radio-Television portal,
revealed Jeremic's role
in this affair, a tens
of millions of dollars,
as well as his private
dilutes, which he made
while serving as the
chairman of the United
Nations General
Assembly. -
Jeremic's testimony at
the Ho trial was
problematic because he
turned out to be working
for "CEFC Energy" (a
Chinese conglomerate led
by Ho, prim. Aut.) While
serving as the chairman
of the UN General
Assembly. He took their
money, exchanged e-mails
with them ... He did
many things. It is
surprising to me that
the focus of the
prosecution was at Ho.
The prosecutors used his
testimony to show how Ho
established a
relationship, and in
fact what Jeremic was
doing might be worse for
the public - Li
said.
Investigative reporters
also uncovered the flows
of money flowing to
Jeremic's accounts. Hoov
CEFC paid Jeremic as a
consultant a total of $
5.3 million. It turns
out that some companies
that paid this money are
completely phantom,
because they do not
exist at the registered
addresses at all."
As always, what is the
process of appealing or
getting a hearing on the
now 274 day ban amid
this questions, or
process to reapply which
was denied summarily on
2 January 2019? How is
this not
censorship?) and
the translated 22 minute
documentary about
Patrick Ho and CEFC's
bribes through the UN
including Mr. Guterres'
refusal to answer Inner
City Press' question on
it on 5 December 2018,
and that Inner City
Press for allegedly not
complying with interview
"rules" has been
disqualified from
reporting within the
UN? Again,
the sentencing
memorandum includes
quotes from his e-mails
regarding aiming to
violate sanctions and
deal in arms not only to
Chad but also South
Sudan, Libya &
Qatar. What is the SG's
comment and action?
Again, why has no audit
even been begun of CEFC,
at least like the one
Mr. Guterres'
predecessor did of Ng
Lap Seng's Sun Kian Ip
Foundation? Why did Mr
Guterres omit payments
from Gulbenkian
Foundation, which sought
to sell its oil company
Partex to CEFC China
Energy, from his public
financial disclosure
covering 2016? Where are
the more recent public
financial disclosures -
has Mr. Guterres ended
that program? Why?
March
25-8: On the
SG's March 22
appearance on
96th Street,
please
immediately
provide the name
of the UN DSS
officer who
spoke to NYPD on
96th Street to
get them to
restraint in
advance Inner
City Press while
UN Photo and
others like AP
walked freely,
the basis for
this censorship
and any and all
records
regarding
it.
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