As UN Bans
Inner City Press 916th Day It E-Asks Spox
Dujarric of Nigeria Burundi Darfur UN Sex
Abuse Covid Cameroon CAR Gmax Fleming
Censorship 6000 UNanswered
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UN GATE, Jan 4 –
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 Jan 4 after Guterres again
refused to answer but
the IMF did answer, here
(3 Dec 2020), like here,
before Stephane "French
Whine" Dujarric,
previously the face of UN lies
on cholera in Haiti,was
scheduled to hold a briefing
(saying he and his "team"
would answer questions), Inner
City Press submitted 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,
Nov 23 here
(with those allowed in
obsessed by Antony Blinken and
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, whom
we too will cover, and did
even before nomination, here),
Nov 24 here,
Nov 25 here,
Dec 1 here,
Dec 7 here,
Dec 8 here,
Dec 11 here,
Dec 14 here,
Dec 15 here,
Dec 16 here,
Dec 17 here, Dec 18 here,
Dec 21 here,
Dec 22 here,
Dec 23 here,
Dec 24 here,
Inner City Press asked:
These written
question are posed and
responses requested pursuant
to the until-now broken
commitment the the UN will
"continue to answer e-mailed
questions from Mr Lee" Inner
City Press, here
Jan 4-1:
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 Burundi, what
are the comments and actions
if any of SG Guterres on that
in Buhiga, Karusi province, a
family of 6 people (a husband,
his wife, and their four
children) were killed last
night, and that three people
were killed last night and two
others were injured in an
ambush that targeted a vehicle
in Muhabo area, Mugamba
commune, Bururi province. The
vehicle was burnt down
On Nigeria, what
are the comments and actions
if any of SG Guterres and
separately DSG Amina J.
Mohammed to that a magistrates
court in Nigeria’s capital
Abuja has ordered activist and
publisher Omoyele Sowore be
remanded in prison
custody. Mr Sowore was
charged along with four other
activists with Criminal
Conspiracy, Unlawful Assembly
and Inciting Public
Disturbance. They were
arrested by the police for
holding a protest against bad
governance
On CAR, what are
SG Guterres' comments and
actions if any (and
confirmation or denial of the
only 1/3 could vote figure,
and percentage of country out
of government control) on
reports that rebel forces have
seized a south-eastern city in
the Central African
Republic... A rebel coalition
has attacked several towns in
recent weeks, and currently
controls two thirds of the
country. They accuse the
government of holding a
fraudulent election on 27
December. The government
has denied allegations of poll
rigging.
On
Darfur/Sudan, what is the
status of SG Guterres' and USG
LaCroix response to striking
and complaints by national
staff there?
What are the
comments and actions if any of
SG Guterres to the Dec 30 news
that the Ugandan opposition
presidential candidate Robert
Kyagulanyi, popularly known as
Bobi Wine, says he has been
arrested along with his entire
campaign team?
What are the
comments and actions of SG
Guterres and separately USG
Fleming (who is cited in this
article) to this:
December 29, 2020, El Portal
Diplomatico, "The Moroccan
lobby at the UN and Guterres'
Communication team veto
journalist specialized in the
Sahrawi issue," "the new head
of the Secretary General's
Communication team, Melissa
Fleming, prevented the entry
of journalist Matthew Lee,
specialized in armed conflicts
and with more than 10 years of
journalistic work in the
Organization. Thus,
media such as Inner City Press
are censored"
What of the
comments and actions of SG
Guterres on the failure(s) of
the Fifth (Budget) Committee?
What if anything has he done,
from his Portugal vacation?
How specifically will he
comply with New York
regulations and guidance on
COVID 19 when he returns to
New York?
What are the
comments and actions if any of
SG Guterres, who has received
funds from Gulbenkian
Foundation which tried to sell
its oil company Partex to CEFC
China Energy (and whose
financial disclosure covering
2016 did not list the
Gulbenkian funds) to today's
news that that US Second
Circuit Court of Appeals has
upheld the conviction for UN
bribery of CEFC China Energy's
Chi Ping Patrick Ho? And
please disclose business
interests and trips of SG's
son Pedro.
On the UN
system in Kenya, please
explain how current (and past)
UN system staff are doing
business in Kenya and why the
UN has taken no action, see,
Inner City Press here
What are the
comments and actions if any of
SG Guterres on that the
Senegal Mission and (former?)
PR Seck have refused to even
appear in Federal court in New
York in a fraud action, see
Inner City Press cited here
After UNDT purported to order me
to destroy evidence of sexual harassment by UN
staff Padula, AGAIN what are the responses of
SG Guterres and his consigliere Soares, UN
General Counsel now that the appeal has been
acknowledged and said to be on ePortal with
case number? "Weicheng Lin 9:39 AM
Dear Mr. Lee, I acknowledge receipt of
your filing. Case: UNAT/2020/1502
Dear Respondents, We received an Appeal
of UNDT Orders 178 (NY/2020) and 179 (NY/2020)
filed by Mr. Lee on 21 December 2020.
Mr. Lee who is not a staff member nor a party
to the case of the Applicant filed an appeal
against these orders with the Appeals
Tribunal. The Registrar accepted the
submissions and instructed that they be
transmitted to the parties in the UNDT
proceedings, and the Secretary-General for
comments within 30 days."
How is it acceptable that each of your takes
public money and refuses to answer or even
acknowledge Press questions, including about
UN staff's sexual abuse?
On Ethiopia what are the comments and actions
if any of SG Guterres that Ethiopia's military
has killed more than 40 men suspected to be
linked to the massacre of at least 100 people,
including children, in the Benishangul-Gumuz
region, state media report. Five current
and former government officials have also been
arrested over the killings, the reports added?
Where *is* SG
Guterres, and how much is it
costing the public, including
in UN Security costs? How long
will he (SG) be there? How
does it comply with quarantine
rules, including NY/USA
quarantine rules, and UK
rules?
AGAIN - On UN
sexual exploitation and abuse
- alleged - this is a request
that you immediately provide
the "if asked" information
about the new case of sexual
abuse by a Morocco
"peacekeeper" in DRC, data
dumped at 12:01 pm on December
17, and the cases of
child rape and sexual
exploitation by UN
"peacekeepers" from Uruguay,
Ethiopia, Senegal and Benin
and again Cameroon, in DRC and
Central African Republic just
cursorily data dumped onto the
UN website December 10
(Human Rights Day and that you
immediately provide the
"granular" information that
was promised today at noon to
correspondents who barely ask
or publish about this topic.
What is being done for the
victims?
On SG son Pedro
Guimarães e Melo De Oliveira
Guterres, explain how the
business of Explorer
Investments has been reviewed
for conflicts of interest.
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.
On Western Sahara
and Morocco what are the
comments and actions of any of
SG Guterres and separately the
UN Mission and non existent
Personl Envoy on that "On
Monday, November 16,
12-year-old Hayat, born
10/8/2008, was arrested while
attending classes at the
Al-Nahda school in occupied El
Aaiun and taken to the
Moroccan security
headquarters, where she was
subjected to torture
State whether SG Guterres, as he told FOSS,
went to Massachusetts and if so whether he
will stay there are least three days for
testing (and be tested if and when back),
under new NY rules
Immediately explain, given the Amir Dossal
was on board of Epstein's procurer Ghislaine
Maxwell's Terramar Project and Inner City
Press has repeatedly asked you each about in
writing, how Spokesman Dujarric's Oct 30 on
camera statement is not aware of any other
UN connection to Epstein, beyond IPI, was
and is not a lie and cover up.
Again, why did Guterres not list
Gulbenkian, linked to CEFC China Energy, in
his disclosure covering 2016? What are
Guterres' comments on IPI and Epstein, why
would he not say why he left the board? Why
has he not quit Club of Madrid? Why was Amir
Dossal on Board of Terramar of Ghislaine
Maxwell
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?
Immediate comments on the leaked
audio of OSSC Chediek Inner City Press
published Aug 5 on SoundCloud here
(1 of 6)
On Ghislaine Maxwell and UNEP's
Lisa Svensson, who has been exposed in SDNY
has saying the UN doesn't care about sex
trafficking, what is SG Guterres' response?
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
916+ days. What is the appeals
process? On
deadline."
More
here.
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