UNITED NATIONS
GATE, May 2
– 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
2 more
than three
hours
before the UN
noon briefing, Inner
City Press submitted
783 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, 3-30 (one
answer
in the
entire month -
corrupt), and
now May
1.
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
2-1: On Indonesia, what
is the SG's comment and
action if any on the
human rights lawyers
taking the Indonesian
police to court on
behalf of West Papuans,
in an unprecedented
civil case over what she
claims is the illegal
takeover of an activist
group’s headquarters?
The case concerns
damages over their raid
of an activist group’s
headquarters on New
Year’s Eve. West Papuan
lawyers are representing
an activist group called
the National Committee
for West Papua (KNPB) in
the legal claim against
the Mimika branch of
Indonesia’s Papua police
over the New Year’s Eve
raid. “Hundreds of fully
armed police and
military came at 6am,”
the lawyers said of the
raid. They are also
representing people
charged with treason
offences and alleges
several were seriously
injured and showed signs
of “excessive force” by
police.
May
2-2: On the Public
Financial Disclosures
for 2017 belatedly
published over the
weekend of April 27-28,
as a second question,
please state why Adama
Dieng, like UN Security
chief Peter Drennan,
Rosemary DiCarlo and
Nicholas Haysum, is not
even on the list. Isn't
it a bad practice for
the UN's head (anti)
genocide definition
official 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
2-3: On Libya (and
China, and the UAE and
Egypt), what is the
ostensibly arms control
SG's comment and action
if any on that the
remains of an apparent
Chinese-made missile
point to an escalating
drone war in Libya:
photos that appeared to
depict the wreckage of a
Chinese LJ-7
air-to-surface missiles.
LJ-7 wreckage was found
in and around Tripoli on
no fewer than four
separate occasions on
April 17, 20 and 21,
2019? The LJ-7 is the
main armament of the
Chinese-made Wing Loong
drone, popular with
Middle East air arms,
including those of
Egypt, the United Arab
Emirates and Saudi
Arabia. Both Egypt and
the UAE have deployed
forces for combat in
Libya...
May
2-4: China and freedom
of expression, what is
the SG's comment and
action if any on that a
mobile app is being used
to carry out illegal
mass surveillance and
detention of Muslims in
western China's Xinjiang
region? It's a
sophisticated
surveillance system
known as the Joint
Operations Platform
(IJOP), which officials
use to monitor the
behaviour, movements and
spending patterns of 13
million Uighur Muslims.
A facial recognition
company which counts
e-commerce giant Alibaba
as an investor and tech
giant Baidu were
named...
May
2-5: On press freedom
and China, what is the
SG's belated comment and
action if any on that
award-winning Chinese
photographer Lu Guang
has been detained by
local police in Xinjiang
since last November?
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.
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
1-5: 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.
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
30-4: On Venezuela,
immediately provide a
read out of Guterres'
meeting with the Lima
Group.
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 "Guteres 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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