As UN Bans
Inner City Press 1078th Day It E-Asks Spox
Farhan Haq of El Salvador BTC Algeria SG
Scam Elex UK Cameroon Honduras Covid Gmax
Fleming 7000 UNanswered
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon IMF
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UN GATE, June 14
– 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 June 14 after Guterres again
refused to answer but
the IMF did answer, May 6 here,
Feb 25 here,
Feb 4 here,
here
(3 Dec 2020), like here,
before not Stephane "French
Whine" Dujarric,
previously the face of UN lies
on cholera in Haiti, but
equally rape-denying Deputy
Farhan Haq 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),
Feb 11 here,
Feb 12 here
(short because Honduras
coverage, another
Guterres cover up), Feb 26 here,
March 1 here,
March 2 here,
March 3 here
(Twitter video briefing by
Brenden Varma who blocks Inner
City Press on Twitter), April
13 here,
April 15 here,
April 16 here,
April 21 here,
April 22 here,
April 23 here,
May 4 here,
May 6 here,
May 25 stand-up here,
May 26 here,
June 2 stand-up here,
June 3 stand-up here,
June 4 here,
June 8 stand-up 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
June 14-1:
Immediately explain the basis
for banning me and Inner City
Press from the UN and its
briefings when not only the
IMF on May 20, 2021 on Sudan
and El Salvador, here,
and IMF on June
10, 2021: on Tanzania
and Cameroon and
on El
Salvador
and Wilson Center
on May 20, 2021 on North
Korea, here,
and also on March 26, 2021 the
US State Department takes
Inner City Press' questions,
transcript here
and May 27, 2021
"Briefing with Acting
Assistant Secretary for
Western Hemisphere Affairs
Julie Chung On the Secretary’s
Upcoming Travel to San Jose,
Costa Rica," "Let’s go the
line Matthew Russell
Lee. QUESTION: Sure.
Thanks a lot and thanks for
taking the question. I had
wanted to ask specifically
about Honduras. There have
been a series of cases in the
Southern District of New York
where the brother of the
president, Juan Orlando
Hernandez, his brother Tony
was convicted of drug
trafficking," see here.
What
are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
on the moves
by El Salvador
to declare
Bitcoin legal
tender? And on
the Bitcoin
project at El
Zonte there?
On
Algeria and freedom of the
press, what are the comments
and actions if any of SG
Guterres on that Algeria's
ministry of communications
says that the accreditation of
France 24 has been
cancelled. The move
comes a day after
parliamentary elections were
held in Algeria.
On Cameroon, what
are the comments and actions
if any of SG Guterres and
separately his Francois Fall
on that the United States has
moved to impose visa
restrictions on people accused
of inciting violence in
English-speaking western
Cameroon?
What are SG
Guterres' comments on the at
least seven opposition
candidates blocked so that he
was endorsed in a closed
meeting by the UNSC, as the
only candidate? How is this
not a travesty of democracy,
undermining what might be left
of the past UN's credibility
on this issue?
On the UNTSO
scandal exposed by Inner City
Press on June 23, 2020, here,
now on deadline confirm or
deny whistleblowers'
complaints to Inner City Press
that the three members from
UNTSO who were involved in
that disgraceful act within a
U.N. vehicle in Tel Aviv 12
months ago remain part of the
mission on full pay one year
later. The Head of
Mission General Lund is under
investigation for fraud and
misuse of entitlements by
Norway and
others. The
Mission Senior advisor Judy
Hylton is under
investigation for abuse
of authority. The
smuggling of alcohol in a U.N.
VIP vehicle across borders
from Jordan, Syria and
Lebanon. She is also
under investigation for
exceeding the two years
secondment in
UNTSO. She has
been in UNTSO from UNHQ for
five
years.
On UN system
sexual abuse, beyond
Hochschild and the below, what
are the comments and actions
if any of SG Guterres on the
statement to the World Health
Organization's (WHO) annual
assembly expressing alarm
about allegations of sexual
abuse by WHO workers in DRC
As Inner City Press has asked
even before you banned it, state when Guterres
knew of charges against Hochschild, and what
"hands down the pants" case the OIOS
investigator told him about in the audio Inner
City Press exclusively published and asked you
about, here
As I asked by
email on the morning of April
20, on UN sexual exploitation
and abuse - alleged - this is
a request on the new 2021 UN
sex abuse by Cameroon in CAR,
and Malawi and Benin in DRC,
data dumped at 10 am on April
20, that you immediately
provide the "if asked"
information
On UN SEA,
immediately provide all
if-asked and other information
on this: On April 12,
2021 at 12:01 pm, the UN data
dumped additional instances:
sexual exploitation by UN
Police and Military from
Senegal in the Central African
Republic. Provide the if-asked
info, including anything done
for victims, immediately.
NOW on UN SEA,
immediately explain why the
Conduct and Discipline email
on the morning of April 15 at
10:01 am did not even contain
a link to the data - where the
new case is again about
Cameroon "peacekeeper" in CAR
- and provide the if asked
information, explain how your
failure and your banning of
Inner City Press which asks is
not a (criminal) cover up
On Malawi
what are the comments and
actions if any of SG Guterres
on that A Malawi court has
said businessman Thomson
Mpinganjira - accused of
attempting to bribe election
judges - has a case to answer,
which paves the way for a full
trial.
On Honduras and
corruption and drug
trafficking, what are the
comments and actions if any of
SG Guterres and his rep
Shackelford on yesterday's
SDNY sentencing of Honduras'
president's brother to life
plus 30 years for
narco-trafficking implicating
the president JOH?
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.
On Honduras,
given the March 22 guilty verdict in SDNY
court with defense lawyer telling Inner City
Press that President JOH has been or will be
indicted, here,
please immediately explain why SG Guterres'
representative in Honduras Mrs. Shackelford on
March 11 took and tweeted a selfie with a
Honduran military official. And, now UNICEF,
with JOH. In the closing argument on March 19
the prosecutor said corrupt Commissioner
Martinez was head of finance for the police,
helping drug traffickers, UN-trained.
On UN SEA, immediately provide all
if-asked and other information on this:
On March 18, the UN data dumped additional
instances: sexual exploitation by UN Police in
Haiti, by a UN military observer in Colombia
(nationality of perpetrator withheld for
both), by Gabon and Cameroon in the Central
African Republic, including child rape.
On Iran, now that indicted Afrasiabi has said
under oath that he provided reports to the
Iranian Mission "for submission to the UN,"
immediately disclose what these were, if this
indicted person was paid through UNFCU and
what UNFCU's (and the UN's) compliance with US
FARA procedures are.
On UN corruption and bribery, state whether
the UN has anyone monitoring the SDNY court
proceeding of UN bribery Heidi Piao on March 5
and if not, why not and either way, what are
the comments and actions of SG Guterres on
what was said including that Paio helped
Patrick Ho and CEFC China, and what Gulbenkian
(whose oil company CEFC tried to buy) was not
on Guterres' public financial disclosure
covering 2016.
Explain why the UN bans Inner City
Press, even from asking these questions by
WebEx, when for example the IMF, even Feb 25,
allowed and answered my questions on Sudan,
Cambodia and Zambia? How can Guterres and
Fleming and the Office of the Spokesperson
justify this censorship? See, Feb 25 IMF, here
Explain the basis for the UN
Secretariat to block US-based Inner City Press
from access the UNSC stakeout to question the
new US Ambassador to the UN.
AGAIN - On
the criminal indictment of
Afrasiabi for secret payments
from Iran Mission to the UN -
through UNFCU - again, what
are SG Guterres' comments and
actions and separately what of
the procedures of UNFCU and
the UN to monitor for
violations of US FARA? And now
on Afrasiabi's argument that
the UN Charter trumped FARA?
And that he has asked FM Zarif
to get SG Guterres' help? Why
did SG Guterres response to
now-indicted illegal lobbyist
for Iran through SG Central
while banning and not answer
Press that covers this UN? How
is this not just censorship
and corruption?
On the UN system
being unable or unwilling to
investigate corruption in its
ranks, including the "dollar a
year" people like Mike
Bloomberg and, reporting,
Irina Bokova at UNESCO, what
are SG Guterres' comments and
action on OIOS David Kanja
telling a whistleblower (who
in turn told Inner City Press)
this: "From: OIOS Hotline
Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at
8:46 AM Subject: Re:
Allegation Report and Request
for Investigation Irina Bokova
and Kalin Mitev
Thank you for your additional
email dated 07 February 2021
to the Investigations
Division, Office of Internal
Oversight Services
(ID/OIOS).
Your report has been carefully
reviewed. Unfortunately, the
subject of your complaint
falls outside the mandate of
ID/OIOS, which deals with
misconduct matters involving
UN staff and resources. As
such, we are unable to assist
in your query."
Immediately
provide a complete list of all
dollar a year officials of the
UN system, specifically which
ones SG Guterres appointed or
re-appointed, and what
safeguards against corruption
and conflict of interest there
are.
On UN sexual
exploitation and abuse -
alleged - this is a request
that you immediately provide
the "if asked" information
about the case of child
rape and sexual exploitation
by UN "peacekeepers" from
Gabon and Cameroon in Central
African Republic just
cursorily data dumped onto the
UN website on the morning of
Feb 12, 2021 at 10:31 am 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?
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.
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.
As Inner City Press asked in the early
afternoon of Jan 5 with no answer (cover up),
On UN sexual exploitation and abuse - alleged
- this is a request that you immediately
provide the "if asked" information about the
new case of child rape in CAR by a Gabon
"peacekeeper," a UN civilian child rape in DRC
and a UN civil sex abuse case in South Sudan,
all data dumped at 12:35 pm on Jan 5, 2021,
after Farhan Haq's 2-question "briefing" and
the earlier cases of child rape and
sexual exploitation by UN "peacekeepers" from
Morocco, Uruguay, Ethiopia, Senegal and Benin
and again Cameroon, in DRC and Central African
Republic just cursorily data dumped onto the
UN website...What is being done for the
victims?
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.
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?
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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