At
UN Guterres Wants $290M For
Power Grab He Trades Cameroon
For Before Flying to Lisbon
Via Ghana
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Letter
PFT Q&A
UNITED NATIONS,
September 11 – In the UN
Budget session that culminated
in the physical ouster
of Inner City Press covering
failed reforms on July 3, one
of the few “wins” of Secretary
General Antonio Guterres was a
power-grab of the Resident
Coordinator system for his
Deputy Amina J. Mohammed. On
September 11 with Inner City
Press banned from the UN for
the 70th day by Guterres and
his Global Censor Alison
Smale, member states heard
Guterres say he wants $290
million for this “reform.” The
Maldives for AOSIS and SIDS
expressed skepticism - and
then Guterres left, set aftr
lunch with US Nikki Hall to
fly off for six full days
including his 15th publicly
funded stop over in Lisbon,
with the funeral of his
predecessor Kofi Annan as the
pretext. The US, which on
September 10 lost
a vote in the General Assembly
158-1 saying it opposes
Chinese domination of UN
development (while according
to the UN of Guterres and
Smale supporting, even
requesting, the censorship of
the Press which reports on UN
bribery by Ng Lp Seng, Patrick
Ho and China Energy Fund
Committee), praised Guterres
reforms just as they praise
his drive to move host country
jobs out of the country. For
these reforms, specifically
for bureaucratic help of the
Budget Committee chairman
Tommo Monthe of Cameroon,
Guterres stayed quiet on the
killing of Anglophones by
Cameroon's Paul Biya. Some
reform(er).
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