UNITED NATIONS
GATE, Nov 14
– 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 November 14
four
hours
before a
noon briefing by
Spokesman
Stephane "French
Whine"
Dujarric
who joked he will
again be
absent
tomorrow
while refusing
to answer written
questions on
UN corruption, after
the July 26
noon briefing
had no
questions at all,
video here,
Inner
City Press submitted 1343
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, 9-30
and now
October 1-3,
7-14,
16-31 and
Nov 1-11, 13
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.
November
14-1: On
Burkina Faso
and freedom of
association,
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on that the
activities of
Burkina Faso's
opposition
party, the
Patriotic
Front for
Renewal (FPR),
have been
suspended for
three months
after it
demanded the
resignation of
President Roch
Marc Christian
Kaboré and his
government. On
3 November,
the FPR said
President
Kaboré - who
was elected in
2015 - had
failed to stem
Islamist
militant
activity in
the
country.
Its leader
Aristide
Ouedraogo
repeated the
call days
later, the AFP
reports.
Minister for
Territorial
Administration
Simeon
Sawadogo is
quoted as
saying that
the FPR had
violated laws
regulating
political
parties.
He ordered the
party, which
has no seat in
parliament,
not to hold
meetings in
the period of
the
suspension.
November
14-2: On Sri
Lanka now that
video of UN
"peacekeepers"
deploying to
Mali is being
used to
campaign for a
bloodbath on
the beach
electoral
candidate, now
see here
-- immediately
and belatedly
answer Inner
City Press
previously
UNanswered
question on
this, and
explain why it
was not
answered, now
that it is
reported:
"Commander of
the Army,
Lieutenant
General
Shavendra
Silva briefed
a new
contingent of
troops being
deployed to
Mali.. The Sri
Lankan CCC,
comprised of
20 Officers
and 223 Other
Ranks
representing
13 Regiments
of the Army,
is scheduled
to depart for
Mali, the
landlocked
West African
country on
12-13
November.
"
November
14-3: On
Cameroon, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on this
testimony
and, again, on
Paul Biya
saying, in
Paris for the
"Paris Peace
Conference,"
that he
"tried" to
assimilate
residents of
SW and NW but
failed (and
will presumbly
accelerate his
murders in
these
regions)?
November
14-4: On press
freedom and
Mexico, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
USG Melissa
Fleming on
that the new
head of the
National Human
Rights
Commission
(CNDH) Rosario
Piedra Ibarra
indicated she
was unaware
that any
journalists
had been
murdered this
year.
November
12-A: As asked
each one of
you yesterday
before the
noon briefing
at which only
two questions
were asked,
one involving
the
escalators,
immediately
answer about
and stop
affirmatively
covering up UN
sexual abuse:
On UN sexual
exploitation
and abuse -
alleged - this
is a request
that you
immediately
provide the
"if asked"
information --
and allow
Inner City
Press access
to noon
briefing to
ask -- about
the cases of
sexual
exploitation
and rape
cursorily data
dumped on
November 11 at
10:30 am
including
rapes in
Liberia,
sexual
exploitation
in Sept 2019
in CAR (all
nationalities
undisclosed -
why?), by
Cameroon in
Mali and those
on November 4
and on October
31 at 1:30 pm
as well as
previously
requested
without
response about
the child rape
and sexual
exploitation
by UN
"peacekeepers"
from Cameroon
and South
Africa the UN
cursorily
disclosed on
the afternoon
of October 28
- about which
Inner City
Press did not
this time
immediately
ask, given
that each of
you have
refused for
one week and
counting to
answer in any
way with
if-asked
information
about the
child rape and
sexual
exploitation
cases
involving
Indonesia,
Mauritania and
again
Cameroon, in
DRC and
Central
African
Republic
cursorily data
dumped onto
the UN website
after 3 pm on
October 21.
November
8-3: On
Honduras, on
which you have
refused to
answer Inner
City Press'
questions
about
Guterres' 4
person panel
sent to the
country - no
read out - and
his meeting
with
presumptively
narco-funded
president JOH,
now comment on
this, from
Insight Crime:
"Security
camera footage
[warning:
graphic
material] of
the incident
shows what
appears to be
a
pre-meditated
ambush. Meza
is talking to
two prison
officials as a
hooded guard
goes to open a
red sliding
door. Once
open, six
inmates storm
in, with one
immediately
firing a
pistol at
Meza’s head.
The drug
trafficker
collapses as
the
gun-wielding
prisoner keeps
firing and the
other convicts
ward off the
guards with
blades.
Honduran
prison
authorities
initially
attributed the
murder to an
inmate brawl,
whereas the
government
laid the blame
on other drug
traffickers.
Meza’s lawyer,
Carlos
Chajtur, said
he believes
the video of
the killing
suggests a
“plot by the
penitentiary
authorities
and maybe
higher level
authorities."
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
3-19: 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 [and AOC
unblocking Dov
Hikind],
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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