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UN GATE, Feb 9 – 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 February 9 after Guterres again refused to answer but the IMF did answer, Feb 4 here, here (3 Dec 2020), like here, before Stephane "French Whine" Dujarric, previously the face of UN lies on cholera in Haiti, held a briefing again promoting a 2d term for Guterres, 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), Jan 20 here, Jan 21 here, Jan 22 here, Jan 25 here, Jan 26 here, Jan 27 here, Jan 29 here, Feb 3 here, Feb 4 here, Feb 5 here, Feb 8 here, Feb 9 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

Feb 9-1: 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 

SPECIFICALLY - since Inner City Press has been informed that the OIOS audio concerns Fabrizio Hochschild, belatedly comment on the audio and state why SG Guterres has for the second time reward / promoted Hochschild.

  In related UN cover up, what are SG Guterres comments and more importantly action on the UN Dispute Tribunal on Feb 3 confirming sexual charges against Padula - while having told Inner City Press to destroy all evidence or remain bannned, and maintaining Padula's name sealed, confirming the cover-up culture under Guterres?

What are SG Guterres' response to the candidacy for SG of Arora Akanksha, who says "not enough has been done other than reshuffling of the bureaucracy and recycling ineffective leaders with new titles and nameplates.  What ails the UN is a failure of leadership"? 

What are SG Guterres' comments and actions if any on South Africa's decision to halt its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after a study showed "disappointing" results against its new Covid-19 variant?

 What are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on Netherlands cutting funding to UNDP, for corruption?

On racism in Guterres' UN, what are his responses to this and to Jeune Afrique? 

 On Cameroon what if anything has SG Guterres done, after his dealings with Paul Biya and Tommo Monthe, about the non-gov finding that soldiers entered Mautu village on foot at around 14:00 on 10 January and then began shooting at people as they ran away in fear?

 Answer now all of Inner City Press' Burma and other outstanding questions, as the IMF today by WebEx invited and allowed Inner City Press and answered its quesion, here.   How can the UN have no due process or appeal? How is this not just censorship?

And as asked Jan 28, without answer: July 11 [2019]-2: On sexual harassment and the Colin Stewart question Inner City Press asked Guterres and you in writing without any answer at all, what now is the SG's response and action if any on this report crediting Inner City Press, here, including " Et pour contredire Guterres, celui-ci commence par rappeler le cas du Chilien Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond, promu au poste de Conseiller spécial du Secrétaire général chargé des préparatifs pour la commémoration du 75ème anniversaire des Nations Unies, alors qu’il est accusé d’avoir commis un acte de harcèlement sexuel dans son propre bureau du 38ème étage…    Matthew Russell Lee ajoute ensuite à ce premier cas, celui du Canadien Colin Stewart, 58 ans, le représentant spécial de Guterres au Sahara et chef de la Minurso, lui aussi, selon la même source, accusé de harcèlements sexuels répétés et pourtant « couvert par Antonio Guterres »

  Given this, how is SG Guterres Jan 28 statement he only because aware of the allegations about Hochschild the day before even plausibly true? And separately, why was Hochschild promoted, twice? 

On Tanzania and COVID, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that Tanzania’s health ministry has denied claims being circulated on social media that hospitals are overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients.  The ministry’s permanent secretary, Mabula Mchembe, said the public should not spread fear among people.  The government has repeatedly been accused of playing down the threat posed by Covid-19. 

On Ethiopia, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that three opposition parties in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region estimate that more than 50,000 civilians have been killed in the conflict. 

 Where are SG Guterres' comments and more importantly actions on the coup in Myanmar / Burma? Why so slow? 

 On CAR, what are the comments and more importantly actions if any of SG Guterres on that the situation in the Central African Republic's (CAR) capital of Bangui is "apocalyptic" as rebels encircle the city, a former prime minister says.  Martin Ziguélé said there was daily fighting across the country and that he couldn't leave Bangui without an armed escort.

Given that the UNDT ordered destruction of evidence concerning sexual harassment inside the UN, why is SG Guterres not waiving immunity, instead having his long time lawyer Miguel de Serpa Soares write to UNAT: "Mr. Lee also requests that the UNAT issue an order compelling the Secretary-General to waive the immunity of the presiding judge in the hearing held in Case No. UNDT/NY/2019/047, so that Mr. Lee may bring action against her in domestic courts. The UNAT should reject this request as not receivable ratione materiae. The UNAT has affirmed that issues relating to the immunity of UN officials, including officials protected under Article VI, Section 22(b) of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, such as the UNDT and UNAT Judges, are policy decisions of the Secretary-General which are not justiciable"? On deadline.

 On Tunisia, UNSC President, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that Tunisian police have blocked the path of hundreds of protesters who were trying to reach the parliament building in the capital, Tunis. 

What is SG Guterres' response to the piece in the Bangkok Post saying "António Guterres does not deserve a second term... his tenure as the world's top diplomat has been disappointing, marked by failures to address human rights abuses, initiate fundamental institutional reforms, or champion multilateralism...

AGAIN, what are comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on the Jan 19 EDNY indictment of Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, a/k/a “Lotfolah Kaveh Afrasiabi,” with acting and conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in violation of US FARA? Specifically, what is SG Guterres response to the statement in the complaint that the now-detained defendant AFRASIABI illegal payments "have been drawn on the IMUN’s bank account at a financial institution in Long Island City in Queens, New York" - on information and believe, UNFCU? And how do you justify not answering this Press question, but taking propaganda questions from Iran state media

On Cameroon, FIFA and the CHAN held in a warzone, what now are SG Guterres' comments and actions if on that the Fifa President Gianni Infantino has called for officials of Cameroon's Football Federation (Fecafoot) to respect a decision from the Court of Arbitration of Sports (CAS) annulling elections held in 2018. 

On UN system corruption, what are SG Guterres comments and actions if any on the UK's letter saying that Inner City Press' reporting uncovered over $400,000 in fraud - and how does he explain banning Inner City Press from entering or asking quesitons at the UN? Isn't this just covering up corruption? See, here.

 On Cote d'Ivoire, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that opposition parties in Ivory Coast want the electoral body to postpone legislative elections due to be held on 6 March as they say they need more time to prepare for them.

Given his attempt to get a 2d term as SG, what is Antonio Guterres' response to the answer to Inner City Press' Jan 13 question by Ken Roth of HRW, that Guterres is been (even) weaker than Ban Ki-moon on human rights? See, here

On Cameroon, AGAIN, what are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres on that ZIFA has written to continental football authority Caf seeking the postponement of this WEEKEND’s African Nations Championship (Chan) that is set for Cameroon from January 16 to February 7. 

What are SG Guterres comments on deadline on events in Uganda - and in Kenya, where four Kenyan human rights activists have been arrested outside the Ugandan embassy in Nairobi. 

Likewise on Western Sahara, what is Guterres response to this in published interview: "under Ban Ki-moon, and the tail end of Kofi Annan's time when I first arrived, I could ask questions about Western Sahara in the UN noon briefing, and at the UNSC stakeout. Under Guterres, this was blocked but he and Melissa Fleming have allowed numerous Morocco state media full access and office space in the UN.

Why does Guterres' UN, unlike the IMF even today, refuse to answer Inner City Press' questions about China? See Jan 8, 2021 IMF video of Inner City Press' question on the Belt and Road (CEFC) and African debt levels, here.

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 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.

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

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 916+ days. What is the appeals process? On deadline."  

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