UNITED NATIONS
GATE, July 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 July 1 three
hours before the
UN noon
briefing in
which Stephane
Dujarric
dodges a
question about
the Rohingya
Guterres
has failed
for years,
Inner
City Press submitted 992
questions,
including why
it continues
to be
lawlessly banned
from entering
to ask
questions in
person:
"There
are more than
600+
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 belatedly
sent on
May 20
about sexual
exploitation
allegations
and 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
1-13, 15-17,
21-31,
June
3-28,
many
questions.
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.
July
1-1: On
Burundi, what
is the SG's
belated
comment and
action if any
on the
exposure of
secret jails
in Bugabira
and Ntega,
Carubambo,
Kinyovu and
Rutagara in
the area of
Mugendo,
Kigari,
Nyemera,
Kigaga and
Mugina, and
that
Nkurunziza has
just renamed
not only the
airport but
also a street,
for Adolphe
Nshimirimana
who allegedly
killed so many
people in
2015?
July
1-2: On China
and Hong Kong,
what is the
SG's belated
comment and
action if any
on the
crackdown on
protesters,
including the
use of tear
gas?
July
1-3: On Japan
and whale
hunting and
international
law, what is
the SG's
belated
comment and
action if any
on that Japan
has just
conducted its
first
commercial
whale hunts in
more than
three decades,
after on 26
December 2018,
Japan
announced it
was
withdrawing
from the
IWC?
July
1-4: On Sudan,
what is the
SG's belated
comment and
action if any
on the killing
of at least 7
protesters and
injuring of
over 200 on
June 30?
July
1-5: On
Myanmar and
the Rohingya,
what is the
SG's much
belated
comment and
action if any
on that the
Free Rohingya
Coalition says
that in 2012,
Guterres, who
was then UN
high
commissioner
for refugees,
was told by
Myanmar's
then-President
Thein Sein of
plans to
detain
Rohingya in
camps and
asked to
facilitate
their removal
from the
country.
While Guterres
publicly
dismissed the
request, the
Free Rohingya
Coalition says
more should
have been
done.
"Myanmar's
intent to
commit
international
crimes was
thus made
clear to the
most senior
levels of the
UN, yet no
action was
taken," the
group said in
a statement
last
week?
July 1-6: On
press freedom
and India,
what is the
SG's comment
and action if
any on that
police in the
Indian state
of Tamil Nadu
are inactive
on the attack
on journalist
G. Muthuvel?
On June 19, in
the offices of
Polimer News
in
Thoothukudi,
in southern
India, three
men attacked
Muthuvel, a
reporter with
the privately
owned
broadcaster...
he has
received
threatening
phone calls
during his
hospitalization
from unknown
phone numbers
urging him to
drop his
assault
complaint and
saying that he
will be
assaulted
again if he
does
not. The
attackers told
Muthuvel that
he was "paying
the price" for
his coverage
of Gajendran,
the inspector
in charge of a
police station
in
Thattarmadam,
a city south
of
Thoothukudi,
the journalist
told CPJ.
Muthuvel had
recently
covered a
protest
against the
inspector,
during which
Gajendran had
approached the
journalist and
urged him not
to air any
footage of the
protest,
Muthuvel
said. He
did air the
footage of the
protest... In
the UN, what
has the
accountability
been for Lt
Ronald E.
Dobbins and
those those
refused on
camera to give
their names?
June
14-5: Since
the SG claimed
publicly that
the mansion he
lives in
"cannot" be
sold, please
immediately
provide any
and all
documents with
such a
restriction,
and separately
explain why
the concept of
cy pres or
reformation of
donor intent
has not been
explored.
Separately,
Boutros
Boutros Galli
wrote in his
book that the
building was
given by
Arthur
Houghton
through the
United Nations
Association of
the USA. What
actual
inquires, with
UNA-USA or any
successor to
Houghton or
Corning Glass,
has Guterres
made?
June
11-1: On
Cameroon, what
is the SG's
comment and
action if any
on this report
from Chinese
state media:
"YAOUNDE, June
10 (Xinhua) --
Cameroon's
House Speaker
of National
Assembly
Cavaye Yeguie
Djibril on
Monday
denounced
foreign
interference
in the
country's
internal
affairs which
he referred to
as
"conspiracy."
"Cameroon has
become an
object of
conspiracy
intended to
destabilize
the country.
To justify
their
interference
in internal
affairs, the
conspirators
pretend to
denounce it."
Again, how
many offices /
desk does the
Secretariat
give to
Chinese state
media inside
the UN?
June
4-3: On UN
sexual abuse
and
exploitation,
AGAIN as
requested on
the morning of
June 3
immediately
disclose what
IS the new
"allegation of
SEA" which the
UN on the
morning of
June 3
announced by
e-mail.
Clicking
through to the
UN website,
the previously
announced case
against South
Africa
peacekeeper is
no longer at
the top of the
page, and it
is unclear
what the new
allegation is.
This lack of
clarity is
unacceptable.
May
15-3: On the
Public
Financial
Disclosures
for 2017
belatedly
published over
the weekend of
April 27-28,
please state
why Mohammed
Ibn Chambas,
like the
Executive
Secretary of
the UN
Biodiversity
Convention,
Cristiana
Paşca-Palmer,
UNICEF's
Henriette
Fore, with
documented
links to
ExxonMobil and
others, USG
Mark Lowcock
(undisclosed
while the
Secretariat's
speaker at the
UNSC Arria on
Cameroon),
UNCTAD's
Mukhisa
Kituyi, UN
Women's
Phumzile
Mlambo-Ngcuka,
UNOG chief
Michael
Moller, UNDP
chief Achim
Steiner,
Heidi Mendoza,
Adama Dieng,
UN Security
chief Peter
Drennan,
Rosemary
DiCarlo and
Nicholas
Haysum, is not
even on the
list. OIOS
chief
Inga-Britt
Ahlenius
reported - why
not Mendoza?
Where IS
Mendoza? 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? What
is the even
plausible
applicability
of this line
from SG
Guterres' web
page: "Please
note that
given the
multi-cultural
environment of
the UN and the
often security
sensitive
locations
where UN staff
are either
working or
come from,
full public
disclosure may
not always be
a viable or
sensible
option for
certain staff
members"? 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.
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