| Amid Burma
Killing, Guterres Envoy Brags of Influence
But No UNSC Action, UNGA Hot Air
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY / UN GATE,
June 18 – After the Burma coup
regime fired its New
York-based UN ambassador U
Kyaw Moe Tun for his speech in
New York in the usually
scripted UN General Assembly,
the New York Times reported
that the speech had been in
Geneva.
Seven hours
later, that remained
uncorrected. Still, an
official of Volkan Bozkir, who
in fine Myanmar fashion
refused to name the authors of
the letters and CVs of
opponents to UN Sec-Gen
Antonio Guterres, bragged
about the session. On June 18,
after a regime-like 1-man
election, Guterres grabbed
five more years.
And his envoy on
Myanmar, Christine Schraner
Burgener, bragged at a
stakeout Inner City Press was
banned from that the people in
Myanmar all know her and she
would give them hope. Why?
The UN Security
Council took no answer; the GA
had a vote with 36 abstentions
(including ASEAN members
Thailand , Brunei, Cambodia
and Laos) and 37 not voting at
all. Belarus, on which
Guterres has an ambiguous
stance, voted no. And
Guterres' Lukashenko like
Press ban continues.
But the reality
is, Guterres removed Burma's
or Myanmar's army from the UN
"list of shame" for recruiting
and using child soldiers,
despite more than 200 cases.
Emboldened by corrupt
Guterres, they are recruiting
and using even more. Now a
call for Guterres, trying to
steal a second term, to
reinstate them on the list -
but from a group which seems
to join Guterres in banning
Inner City Press from (its)
press conference.
Tellingly, after
UN PGA Volkan Bozkir's
spokesman Brenden Varma (who
blocks Inner City Press on
Twitter) bragged there would
be a GA vote on Myanmar on May
18, the vote is postponed and
Varma, it seems, deleted his
tweet without explanation,
while uploaded selfies from
Woodstock, Vermont. This is
what the UN has come to:
corrupt censorship. Burma
indeed.
Watch this site.
After
Guterres and his spokespeople
dodged about who is Burma's
ambassador -- eager to get
China's support for a second
term, taking the US for
granted -- this from the US
Mission: "Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield met
virtually this afternoon with
Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun,
Permanent Representative of
the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar to the UN. Ambassador
Thomas-Greenfield commended
Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun for
his courageous and
compassionate statement at the
UN General Assembly informal
meeting on Burma last week and
expressed the United States’
support for the people of
Burma and the restoration of
the democratically-elected
government."
Dujarric,
while taking public money to
work for the UN, says he is
the spokesman for the
incumbent, like part of a
political campaign. We'll have
more on this.
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