UNITED NATIONS
GATE, May 1
– 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 May
1 two
hours
before the UN
noon briefing, Inner
City Press submitted
778 questions, including why
it continues to be
lawlessly banned
from entering to ask
questions in person:
"There are more
than 500+
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, 3-29.
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.
May
1-1: Please immediately
state to WHOM in the
Chinese government
Antonio Guterres claims
to have raised that
government's abuse of
the Uighurs, given that
the claim Guterres
raised the issue to Xi
has had to be retracted
- although this false
information remains
online in many places
including TIME and the
South China Morning
Post, and state what if
anything the UN is doing
to having this false
information about
Guterres and Xi
corrected /
clarified.
May
1-2: On UN sexual abuse
and exploitation, please
immediately provide all
if-asked further
information about the
allegations put online
on April 30 regarding
sexual exploitation in
Guinea Bissau by a UN
civilian, nationality
undisclosed. From what
country? What was this
not disclosed? What is
the if-asked information
- when did the UN find
out? What is the impact
on the victim? What is
the UN doing, other than
covering up?
May
1-3: On Iran and human
rights, what is the SG's
comment and action if
any on that Iran
secretly flogged and
executed two 17-year-old
cousin, Mehdi Sohrabifar
and Amin Sedaghat, who
had been convicted of
rape, were executed
Thursday at a prison in
the southern city of
Shiraz following a
dubious trial?
May
1-4: On the Public
Financial Disclosures
for 2017 belatedly
published over the
weekend of April 27-28,
as a second question,
please state why UN
Security chief Peter
Drennan, like Rosemary
DiCarlo and Nicholas
Haysum, is not even on
the list. Isn't it a bad
practice for a head of
security to conceal from
the public even cursory
financial disclosure?
Did DiCarlo decline to
make any public
disclosure despite being
the UN's top political
officer? Why has
Guterres changed the
previous system in a
which a "choosing not to
disclose" statement was
upload and listed, to
one which helps conceal
who reports and who does
not? Again, state
why considering 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 was omitted from
his online public
financial disclosure
covering 2016, and why
Guterres has not even
started an audit of CEFC
in the UN.
May
1-5: Since it uses
public money, and
rewards an UN Security
official shown to have
improperly been on the
board of a outside
organization and allowed
it to use the UN,
immediately disclose the
terms of the buy-out of
or "agreed termination"
with Matthew Sullivan,
to whom this is offered,
and at what terms. Also,
what was ever done on
Sullivan's (mis) use of
the UN, including with
NFL retirees and for GPS
sneaker sales.
May
1-6: On Burkina Faso and
the rule of law, what is
the SG's comment and
action if any on that a
hundred Burkinabe
lawyers took to the
streets of Ouagadougou
on Monday to condemn the
shutdown of the
judiciary, which they
vex has paralysed
judicial activities in
the country since
October 2018. “The
Burkina Faso Bar
Association denounces
and condemns the
blocking of the judicial
system, the massive and
indiscriminate violation
of the rights of users
of justice,” said Paulin
Salambéré, Bar
President, after a march
in front of the Ministry
of Justice. He
noted that there are
currently 808 remand
prisoners awaiting
trial, 1,640 accused
prisoners whose cases
are under investigation
and 3,641 convicted
prisoners in prison
whose sentences are
hampered by
dysfunctions?
May
1-7: On press freedom
and Uganda, what is the
SG's comment and action
if any on that the
Uganda Communications
Commission (UCC has
ordered the
Kamwokya-based NBS
Television to suspend
the head of the news and
the programme manager
for what the commission
calls “repeated breach
of minimum broadcasting
standards.” On
Monday, the television
aired live proceedings
of the arrest of the
Kyadondo East Member of
Parliament, Mr Robert
Kyagulanyi? 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
30-2: On Cameroon, along
with the many unanswered
Inner City Press
questions, please state
whether as before DSG
Amina J Mohammed and
chef de cabinet Viotti
will be attending the La
Republique du Cameroun
National Day, if so what
they will say given
Biya's ongoing
killings.
April
30-3: Given the seven
limousines belching
smoke outside the Sutton
Place mansion last
night, please state who
attended this dinner
with Guterres, beyond
the PRs of Sweden and
the EU, and why it was
not on Guterres' public
schedule.
April
30-4: On Venezuela,
immediately provide a
read out of Guterres'
meeting with the Lima
Group.
April
30-5: On Iran, what is
the SG's comment and
action if any on that
human rights lawyer
Nasrin Sotoudeh was
handed the maximum
sentence for all seven
charges against her,
including spying,
spreading propaganda and
insulting Iran’s supreme
leader Ali
Khamenei.
April
29-1: On Cameroon, what
is the SG's comment and
action if any on the
killing of civilians
including children by
Paul Biya's arm in the
SW village of Ikata on
April 26?
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
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?
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