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UN GATE, Nov 23 – Inner City Press on 5 July 2018 was banned from entering the UN, two day after it was physically removed from conducting interviews outside meeting about the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' $6.7 billion budget.

  Then Guterres' Department of Global Communication, run by Melissa Fleming, issued a letter banning Inner City Press from the UN - for life. With no due process, no right of appeal.  Guterres has put the UN in the US Press Freedom Tracker, here. Guterres' Spokesman Stephane Dujarric falsely promised on camera that he would be answering banned Inner City Press' questions - but see below.

     On Nov 23 after Guterres again refused to answer but the IMF did answer, here, before an amateur UN noon briefing by quarantine violator Stephane "French Whine" Dujarric, previously the face of UN lies on cholera in Haiti, Inner City Press submitted to deputy Farhan Haq and tther  yet more questions (blocked by Dujarric's screener Florencia Soto Nino on +1 917 226 7816 and Dujarric himself on +1 917 622 7652; he directed some favored scribes to Eri Kaneko on +1 917 208 8910, who now blocks Inner City Press on WhatsApp as well) including on the basis on which it continues to be lawlessly banned from entering to ask questions in person. Now also on the basis for withholding publicly funded UN video from the Press. There was no answer from Farhan Haq on +1 917 592 4591, not even a confirmation of receipt, and now UN official like Hua Jiang, Eri Kaneko, now on screen Jennifer Confilio, Adam Smook, Marisela Rivera and others to be named taking public money for a UN briefing blocking email questions about the UN's spread of Covid 19 - May 21 Inner City Press video with commentary here and here, edit here, June 16 video of Kaneko who had briefing go dark and never returned to explain here and here -- who will be held accountable? July 16 and ouster here, July 17 raw and UNTV... August 11 briefing and quarantine violations, Aug 12 here, Sept 14 here, Sept 15 here, Sept 17 here and UNTV here, Oct 1 here, Oct 13 here, Oct 14 here, Oct 23 here, Oct 29 here, Nov 3 here, Nov 5 here, Nov 11 here, Nov 12 here, Nov 16 here, Nov 18 here, Nov 19 here, Nov 23 here (with those allowded in obsessed by Antony Blinken and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, whom we too will cover, and did even before nomination, here) Inner City Press asked:

Nov 23-1: Immediately respond to (as you have to date refused to) and explain this leaked audio, exclusively published by Inner City Press, of OIOS' Ben Swanson here 

On the UNECE scandal you have refused to answer Inner City Press on, now state what was done to Robert Nowak after he was forced to turn in the diamong necklack and jeweled iPhone from the Kuwaiti Adel al-Yousifi - and what has been done with this improper gifts since. 

Explain immediately how Pedro Guterres doing business with Rwanda while Antonio Guterres was UNSG was and is not a conflict, and what was disclosed and to whom.  Now, explain how the business of Explorer Investments has been reviewed for conflicts of interest. 

On Cameroon, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres, who has falsely claimed a ceasefire in Cameroon, on that government soldiers have just recently burned down a house at Akofunguba village in Bafut, restive North West Region of Cameroon. The heavily armed soldiers also looted property from homes and provision stores, eyewitnesses have said.  Earlier this month, soldiers raided the village, with residents turning heel for safety into nearby bushes, where some of them say they witnesses the Cameroon military and the actions they were taking. Bullet covers were seen on the floor of the burnt house, indicating the house was shot at before it got burnt, says an eyewitness who opted to conceal his identity. 

On Guinea and COVID-19, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that Guinea's government has suspended all street protests in what it says is a move to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.  The opposition politician who lost last month's presidential election, Cellou Dalein Diallo, had called for mass protests this Wednesday. 

Explain why the UNDT proceeding on November 20 regarding Kennedy, which mentions reporting by Inner City Press, is now closed to the public at Guterres' request, why Guterres requested it and how it doesn't confirm him as a secretive retaliator, as well as a censor of Press?

What are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that Ethiopia's army chief has accused the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) of lobbying in favour of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which is fighting federal troops.  General Berhanu Jula said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had "left no stone unturned" to support the TPLF and help get them weapons.

 What are SG Guterres' response to and actions if any one these complaints and questions from UN staff, published by Inner City Press:  "Can you please address the issue that while the UN has a hiring freeze, vast numbers of exceptions are being provided at all levels, but primarily in favor of senor level posts?

What are the comment and actions if any of SG Guterres, on accountability, now that narcotics trafficking and money laundering charges have been dropped against Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, former Mexican Defense Secretary? And, again, on those convicted (presidential brother) and prosecuted in the SDNY Honduras / JOH case? 

On deadline what is the SG's (and separately OIOS') position on the impending promotion of Lily Neyestani-Hailu in UNESCO? 

Same on Padula and that censorship demand, below - respond to Inner City Press response to UNDT, sent to most of you including SG, DSG, OSSG, USG DGC, and MALU - on deadline.   Now, explain why the Kennedy case - retalition against a presumed whistleblower about DSS - is not even listed as a public case, email went to the same SG, USG OSSG and UNDT, etc, yesterday.  Specifically, what are the SG's comments and actions on the bombing of Eritrea's airport? 

On Egypt, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that a leading human rights group in Egypt says that another member of its team has been detained by the security forces - the second such arrest this week.  The Egyptian Initiative for Human Rights says that its director of criminal justice Karim Ennarah has been arrested

What are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres and separately USG Fleming on that a Hong Kong journalist appeared in court Tuesday on charges of making false statements while obtaining information from a vehicle database

What are the comments and actions of SG Guterres on that Mr. Karkara at UN Women sent porn from his UN computer and harassed interns? Again, that happened in the UNDT processing Nov 3 of Padula, and why was Inner City Press blocked from covering it? What is Guterres' comment on UN staffer Elkorany, with a proceeding today in SDNY? Why is Guterres covering up, and why is Inner City Press still banned, even by WebEx on which the IMF allows it to ask questions?

Immediately state what the follow up has been on this and other cases below left murky in the OIOS report  "An investigation revealed that a staff member at the Office of the 69th President of the General Assembly had been involved in a range of activities that included diversion of funds, misuse of assets and self-dealing in the discharge of duties. The staff member had used their position to advance their personal interests and those of third parties, received undeclared gifts, solicited funds that were diverted to unofficial accounts and engaged in unauthorized outside activities. OIOS transmitted its findings to the Office of Human Resources for appropriate action and to the Office of Legal Affairs for possible referral to national authorities."  Inner City Press reported on this, and it's now in the Uganda press, the Monitor etc 

On Cameroon, please immediately provide SG Guterres' comments and actions if any on that Maurice Kamto has been held under house arrest for three weeks now.   Given your failure to answer that, now on deadline comment on the retriation / refoulement to Cameroon (airport shut for this) of asylum seekers and refugees and what the UN is doing to ensure no torture or worse.

On SG Guterres' Oct 12 request / demand for $3 billion amid global cutbacks, explain this line: $1.9 million to deliver a new global communications strategy for the United Nations." How much is being contributed by IDEA and Pierre Omidyar, as you have refused to answer so far? How would this money be spend and how does it relate to USG Fleming's ongoing ban on Inner City Press? 

On Spokesman Dujarric's Oct 9 statement that SG Guterres left New York TWO times during the pandemic, other than the belatedly disclosed one resulting in two weeks faux quanantine with maskless men and Secretary Pompeo visit, when was the other one? Was it too follow by two weeks in the "Residence"? Where was it disclosed?

Given that not only Cunillera but Michael Antoine are being paid by UNTSO after the #UNsexploitation exclusively exposed by Inner City Press, why have you not only refused all of Inner City Press' questions but also failure to update your now inaccurate statements about leave WITHOUT pay? 

On UN staffer Karim Elkorany, indicted in SDNY for lying to FBI about drugging and raping women while working for UN in Iraq, immediately state what the outcome of the victim complaining to the UN was - and why Elkorany was back at liberty in New Jersey.

AGAIN - immediately explain UN Amir Dossal being 1 of 5 on board of Ghislaine Maxwell's Terramar Project, and what has been done about it.

 Immediately provide the if-asked information on the new SEA charged data dumped this morning about allegations against South Africa "peacekeeper" in DRC and Gabon "peacekeeper" in CAR, and -- As Inner City Press asked each of you on August 17 without answer, re new 2020 UN child rape in South Sudan case data dumped on the afternoon of August 17 - immediately provide all if-asked info of the type previously provided under Ban Ki-moon before SG Guterres tried to cover everything up,  and August 5, 9 am by Italy in Lebanon, South Africa in DRC and an UNSPECIFIED UN civilian CHILD RAPE in DR Congo of July 28 of Gabon in CAR and Guinea in DRC, on top of those of July 23, 6 pm that you immediately provide all if-asked / further information about the new UN sexual exploitation allegations in CAR against UN "peacekeeper" from Gabon, and in DRC by South Africa, on top of unanswered UNTSO driver question and those data dumped on June 4 after 2:30 pm - the twelfth batch this summer so far, no answers, UNSG complicit

On Honduras and COVID corruption by the Juan Orlando Hernandez administration, what are the comment and actions if any of SG Guterres on the corruption allegations here? And again, what is the read out of Guterres' panel sent to Honduras? 

as well as on the June 22 admission by Sri Lanka former PR Kohona that his country led a campaign to get Inner City Press ousted and banned from the UN after it reported on mass killings in Sri Lanka, as Inner City Press was also doing as to Cameroon when your UN banned it now for 834+ days. What is the appeals process? On deadline."  

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