UN
Downplays Shortfall and US 70%
Role Inner City Press Learns by
Leaks While Banned
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive II, Patreon
UNITED NATIONS,
July 26 – The UN on July 26
misleadingly put the amount it
is owed for its regular budget
at $810 million. The real
number for “Outstanding
Regular Budget” in the UN's
internal Status of
Contributions website, as of
July 26, is $1,286,496,899.22,
Inner City Press can
exclusively report. See Status
of Contributions printout,
first exclusive, here
on Scribd; if any problem, here via Patreon.
Now, even
banned from the UN by
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres since July 3 as
reported by Fox and The
Independent but not reversed
by any member state or the UN,
Inner City Press has obtained
internal UN document showing
the United States role in the
shortfall, diplomatically
underplayed by the vacationing
censor Guterres. This Status
of Contributions document
about the United States shows
that of the actual $1,286,496,899.22
UN regular budget shortfall,
$938,376,277.47 is the US:
that is, 72.9% of the
shortfall is the US. Second
exclusive here,
on Patreon here.
(That there are reasons not to
pay the UN, such as
peacekeepers' rapes and physical
censorship and banning of the
Press, is also clear).
Even of
Guterres' spokesman Dujarric
artifically limited deficit
figure of $810 million -
Dujarric disingenuously spoke
only of 2018, without
including the ongoing 2017
shortfall - the US makes up
73.01% of it, with
$591,388,114 of the $810
million. As reflected by the
leaked Status of Contributions
document exclusively obtained
by Inner City Press, the US'
total contribution payable are
over $3 billion.
Inner City Press was banned
from the July 26 UN noon
briefing where Secretary
General Antonio Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric
made this claim, and so could
not ask questions. It
submitted five questions, only
one of which was partially
answered. (Dujarric, answering
another journalist's questions
about why Inner City Press is
banned and who made the
decision said
the "investigation" is only by
Alison Smale's Department of
Public Information, such that
UN Security's assault on Inner
City Press is NOT part of the
UN's investigation. This is a
cover up, for UN corruption.)
Inner City
Press has been banned from the
UN since July 3, when while it
was covering the UN Budget
Committee meeting as it has
for years its reporter was roughed
up by UN Security
Lieutenant Ronald E. Dobbins
and another officer the UN
still refuses to name.
In
front of UN Department of
Management official Christian
Saunders (previously embroiled
in a UN procurement scandal)
Inner City Press' reporter was
physically removed from the
UN. After filing a New York
City Police Department
criminal report on July 4,
Inner City Press was blocked
by UN Security from entering
the building on July 5, and
has been banned for 23 days
since.
Guterres, who was informed
on June 25 that Lt Dobbins was
targeting Inner City Press
which has published a
similarly leaked UN document
calling into question his and
others' promotions in UN
Security, refused
on July 20 to answer why Inner
City Press is banned, and set
off on a two week vacation,
location undisclosed.
(Tellingly, insiders quoting
Guterres' letter but not the
actual numbers did not mention
he is on vacation.) Guterres declined
to speak to the Frontline
documentary on UN
peacekeepers' rapes that aired
on July 24.
Exclusive:
UN Claims It's Owed $810M But Real
Number Is 1,286 Billion Inner City
Press Learns While Banned by Matthew
Russell Lee on Scribd
On July 13
as Inner City Press worked
outside the UN on the bus stop
bench on 45th Street and First
Avenue in front of the UN
Delegates Entrance it was
informed by a source that “the
US has stopped paying its dues
and Guterres is asking for 5%
cut all around” Being banned
from the building Inner City
Press has been trying to
confirm and expand on this,
being told by another source
that “I have heard that there
are important Member States
that have delayed payments
(US, Japan, Brazil, Mexico for
instance) and that evidently
do create a cash challenge.”
We'll have more on this - and
on Guterres' ongoing
censorship.
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