UNITED NATIONS
GATE, Sept 17
– Inner City Press
on 5 July
2018 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' Department
of Global Communication
issued a letter
banning Inner City
Press from the UN -
for life. With no
due process.
Guterres has
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 September
17
more
than three
hours before what
would have
been a
noon
briefing by Spokesman
Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric except
he
cancelled it
for a wan
presser by
Amina
"Rosewood"
Mohammed,
after the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1210
questions,
including why
it continues
to be
lawlessly banned
from entering
to ask
questions in
person:
"There
are more than
800+
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 Sept 6
(while you
still withhold
if-asked
information
about Cameroon
child rape(s)
in DRC),
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,
and July 1-2,
8-31 and August
1-5,
8-30,
Sept 3-5, 9-16
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.
September
17-1: On
Cameroon, what
is the SG's
belated
comment and
action if any
after the
golden statue
and Fifth
(Budget)
Committee
deals with
Tommo Monthe
on that
Cameroonian
lawyer Enow
Benjamin Agbor
has said
that he and
his colleague
are on strike
for five days
because they
are routinely
denied access
to their
clients.
“Lawyers who
insist on
seeing their
clients
sometimes end
up in jail
themselves,"
he said.
September
17-2:
Reiterating
the question
you refused to
answer on the
morning of
September 16,
This is a
request for
the UN to
immediately
explain the
basis on which
Inner City
Press, despite
RSVP-ing for
today's
Democracy Day
event in CR8
and being told
by IDEA it was
approved and
to come pick
up ticket this
morning in
Uganda House -
there was no
ticket
there.
I am asking in
the context of
USG DSS
Michaud's
message in
late August
saying that
DSS only
follows
DPI/DGC's
withdrawal of
media
accreditation,
not any wider
"ban" on
entry. (He is
cc-ed). This
afternoon's
event is not
limited to UN
accredited
correspondents.
Therefore I
asked before
1:30 pm to be
told that I
will be
allowed to
enter with
IDEA which now
told me to
come to the
front of the
UN at 2:30, or
to be informed
of the basis
for
withholding my
ticket (and
putting IDEA
in this
situation as
well).
On deadline,
along with the
Cameroon, UN
rape,
Gulbenkian
Foundation,
CEFC China
Energy and
other
questions
below.
Awaiting the
UN's
explanation -
now that IDEA,
contrary to
USG Michaud's
now dubious
message,
wrote:
From: Massimo
Tommasoli at
idea dot int
Date: Mon, Sep
16, 2019 at
12:26 PM
Subject: Fw:
RSVP To: Inner
City
Press
Dear Mr. Lee,
Unfortunately
the UN
Security
informed us
that you will
not be allowed
to attend our
event because
of the UN
decision of
banning you
from the UN
premises. I
shall
therefore be
unable to
obtain a
temporary pass
for you."
Photo
here.
The UN never
told IDEA that
it had granted
29 other
requests but
not that for
Inner City
Press; it did
not thereafter
explain to
IDEA
why.
September
17-3: As to
Guterres, as
he refused to
answer outside
the "prayer"
event, why has
he still
refused to
disclose on
his financial
disclosure
covering 2016
payments he
received from
the Gulbenkian
Foundation
which tried to
sell its oil
company Partex
to CEFC China
Energy, whose
UN
representative
Patrick Ho was
convicted of
UN bribery in
the SDNY court
and is
imprisoned in
the MCC jail
where Jeffrey
Epstein
was?
September
17-4: As to
DSG Amina J.
Mohammed, as
she refused to
answer outside
the "prayer"
event, what
plans if any
do she and her
country-person
the new PGA
have to
address the
abuse of
Cameroon's
Anglophones,
including by
Nigeria though
illegal
refoulement to
life
imprisonment
and other
methods?
September
17-5: What is
the update on
the troubling
charges that
Amina J.
Mohammed
backdated /
signed 1000s
of
certificates
for endangered
rosewood
exported to
China from
Nigeria and
Cameroon?
September
17-6: On
Burkina Faso
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of Guterres
and Amina J.
Mohammed on police
in Burkina
Faso fired
tear gas to
disperse
protesters in
the capital,
Ouagadougou,
on Monday.
September
17-7: On the
UN accepting
OFFICIAL
immunity for
sex crimes by
its
peacekeepers,
what is
Guterres
action on that
a Canadian
peacekeeper
sexually
assaulted a
Haitian woman
in early 2013?
"There had
been a
conflict
between the
two of them,
during the
course of
which he had
actually
threatened her
with his
UN-issued
firearm." The
woman fled
from the
vehicle the
officer was
in, which also
belonged to
the UN, but in
the process,
she managed to
grab his badge
— which is how
he was
identified as
a Canadian
peacekeeper...
There are no
consequences
for Canadian
officers who
violate both
the RCMP and
the UN's rules
of sexual
misconduct
while deployed
abroad...
September
17-8: On press
freedom and
Uzbekistan,
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of Guterres
and USG
Melissa
Fleming on
Uzbekistan's
preson
sentence for
blogger
Nodirbek
Hojimatov?
September
16-1: On
Zimbabwe, what
is the SG's
comment and
action if any
on that
Zimbabwean
doctors have
staged a
walkout in
protest at the
alleged
abduction over
the weekend of
Peter
Magombeyi,
head of the
doctor's union
who has led
strikes over
poor pay and
working
conditions.
September
16-2: On
Indonesia and
West Papua
what is the
SG's comment
and action if
any on that an
Indonesian
human rights
lawyer, in
hiding in
Australia and
facing
allegations of
provoking
civil unrest
in Papua and
West Papua
provinces, has
broken her
silence to
accuse
Indonesian
authorities of
“intimidation”,
and
fabricating a
criminal case
against
her.
Veronica Koman
said on Sunday
claiming the
Indonesian
government was
seeking
“scapegoats”
September
10-3:
What are the
SG's and USG
Fleming's view
of the ethics
of UN
Correspondents
Association
official
taking a paid
trip to China
at this time,
with regard to
Xinjiang, Hong
Kong and
bribery by
China Energy
Fund
Committee,
which tried to
buy the oil
company of
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which has made
payments to
the SG? See here
September
9-6: On UN
sexual
exploitation
and abuse,
again this the
request that
Inner City
Press asked
you and others
in writing on
the morning of
August 19 that
you
"immediately
provide all
if-asked and
additional
information
about the new
allegation of
SEA announced
at 11:01 am
today, of
child rape by
a Cameroonian
"peacekeeper"
in DR Congo
and that you
immediately
provide the
"if asked"
information
about
that you
immediately
provide the
"granular"
information
that was
promised last
week at
another noon
briefing Inner
City Press was
banned from,
to
correspondents
who barely ask
or publish
about this
topic.
September
4-8:
Immediately
explain the
single lawless
line from MALU
on 30 August
2019:
"Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018." This is
a formal
request for
the UN's
explanation of
grounds for
this denial.
And a demand
for answer to
these
questions,
which MALU has
declined to
answer:
Who made the
decision?
Where is the
list of those
accredited by
[MALU]?
What and to
whom is the
process of
appeal?
September
3-17: In light
of the death
of Jeffrey
Epstein, now
on August 27
multiply
accused of sex
trafficking
along with
Ghislaine
Maxwell who
was allowed to
promote her
now closed
charity in the
UN Press
Briefing Room,
as Inner City
Press asked
without any UN
response on
July 22,
please
immediately
disclose all
UN
interactions
with his
Ghislaine
Maxwell's
TerraMar
Project and
relatedly,
with Paolo
Zampolli.
September
3-19: On press
freedom and
Cameroon, on
which you
refused to
answer on
August 13
despite saying
the office was
staffed and
answering, now
more specific:
what is the
SG's comment
and action if
any, post
golden statue,
to that Paul
Atanga Nji,
territorial
administration
minister, says
Cameroon's
journalists
are becoming
highly
unpatriotic.
"They have one
main
objective,
just to
sabotage
government
action, to
promote
secessionist
tendencies,"
said Nji. "I
urge them to
be
responsible.
Those who do
not want to
respect the
laws will be
booked as
being
recalcitrant
and will be
treated as
such"... Now
that the US
Court of
Appeals for
the Second
Circuit has
ruled against
public
officials
blocking
critics on
Twitter even
if the
official
claims their
account is
private, what
is the
justification
for UNSG
Spokesperson
Stephane
Dujarric, with
the UN flag in
his profile
photo and
Guterres
promoting
content,
blocking Inner
City Press?
What is SG
Guterres'
response /
reaction to UN
DSS and
Guterres'
actions on
Inner City
Press being
listed in the
U.S. Press
Freedom
Tracker, here.
In the UN,
what has the
accountability
been for Lt
Ronald E.
Dobbins and
those those
refused on
camera to give
their names?
What is each
of yours -
particularly
the SG's -
response to
the letter
written and
sent by
Burundi
activist
Manisha
Lievin?
Immediately
explain the
single lawless
line from MALU
on 30 August
2019:
"Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018." 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 Fleming
have not even
responded...
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 - and
respond that
Inner City
Press on
August 24
applied like
100s or 1000s
of others to
cover the
upcoming UNGA
high level
week,
including now
formally
offering to
answer any
quesions the
UN / DSS might
have, having
been vetted
and accredited
elsewhere
since, as both
USG DSS
Michaud and
MALU have
formally been
timely
informed --
and how it is
possible that
a media that
closely covers
and uncovers
the UN could
be denied
entry, other
than (SG)
censorship.
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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