| Belgium Takes Over UNSC With
Nothing on Cameroon Secret on Jared Kushner
and Yemen Censoring
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Feb 3 –
In the United Nations from
which SG Antonio Guterres has
banned Inner City Press 580
days for asking about his
complicity in the killing of
civilians in Cameroon and
elsewhere, on February 3
Belgian Ambassador Marc
Pecsteen de Buytswerve held a
friends-only press conference
about his upcoming month as
Security Council president,
with few questions on Africa.
Program of Work tweeted by
Inner City Press here.
Belgium,
of course, oversaw the
colonialism and killing in the
Congo. Its mission to the
UN,in 2018 and since, did not
respond to Inner City Press'
formal communications about
Guterres having it roughed up
and banned. Still the Mission
and Ambassador pontificate
about press freedom and even
the safety of journalists.
The next,
such as it was, is that Jared
Kushner will brief the
Security Council behind closed
doors on February 6 at noon,
when Guterres' spokes- /
hatchetman Stephane Dujarric
holds his noon briefing will
refusing all questions from
Inner City Press despite an on
camera promise.
The Yemen
meeting on February 18 will be
closed door, too. Oh,
transparency. Thread here -
and we will cover this all
month, all year, as long as it
takes.
In the
decaying sideshow of the UN
and its Security Council, as
five non-permanent members
leave state media inflates
their performance.
And the UN
of SG Antonio Guterres,
wasting public money for
example on Guterres' now three
week junket away from New
York, didn't even manage to
update to Security Council's
website at the turn of the
year. At 7 pm on January 1,
the UN web site still listed
as current members: "Côte
d’Ivoire , Equatorial Guinea,
Kuwait (2019) Peru (2019)
Poland (2019)." Photo here.
Even
Wikipedia had, nineteen hours
before, added
Estonia, Eastern European
Group, Niger, African Group,
Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, Latin American and
Caribbean Group (GRULAC),
Tunisia, African Group
and Vietnam." As Inner
City Press reported, Guterres
gave the UNSC website to the
photographer husbands of USG
DiCarlo's chief of staff, here.
Inner City Press,
which covered in person these
five's performance from
January through June of 2018
before being roughed up and
banned by UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres with
no reaction by the five,
despite claims of commitment
to press freedom and even UN
transparency, has continued to
cover them.
Kuwait, for example, which has
gotten its KUNA to inflate its
performance, phoned
it in on African issues
including praising Paul Biya,
dictator of Cameroon.
Its
Permanent Representative, a
pleasure enough man, when
Inner City Press standing at
the Delegates Entrance raised
the issue of its expulsion and
ban by Guterres, replied that
if the UN Correspondents
Association with state media
like Xinhua on its Executive
Committee was colluding with
Guterres there was nothing to
be done. One, this is weak for
a member state. Two, it
confirms how disgusting the UN
has become under Guterres.
So what were the
achievements, again? We'll
continue to cover this and the
UNSC, even while the censor
Guterres and his Melissa
Fleming maintain their ban on
the Press. Viet Nam takes over
January 1, 2020.
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