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UN GATE, Aug 14 – Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General who rarely takes questions and even had the Press which asked him about the mass killings in Cameroon thrown out of the UN, rolled up in three large SUV vehicles to the publicly-funded mansion he usually lives alone in, just before the COVID-19 pandemic spread in March Video here, & YouTube and Facebook.

 Now on August 14, this false statement by fake quarantining Guterres, through also fake Spokesman Stephane Dujarric: "Statement of the Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Bolivia     In relation to the unanimous approval yesterday, 13 August 2020, by the Bolivian legislature of  a new electoral  law to set the date of the 2020 general elections, its immediate promulgation by the Executive and the announcement of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal that elections will be held on 18 October 2020, the Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Bolivia, Jean Arnault, issued the following statement today:     The Secretary General’s Personal Envoy welcomes the agreement reached yesterday among the Executive Branch, the Plurinational Legislative Assembly and the Plurinational Electoral Organ regarding the 2020 general elections.  He also welcomes the unanimity achieved by the political parties in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly and the members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.     This consensus is a fundamental achievement that provides guarantees regarding the date of the elections. It helps to overcome political divisions and the uncertainty that worried many sectors of Bolivian society, mobilized or not, as well as the international community itself. With this consensus, the path towards a reliable electoral process whose results are respected by all actors is effectively consolidated.     The United Nations is determined to contribute to the holding of the elections. To this end, we are committed to the following efforts:     - Support the Plurinational Electoral Organ with a team of international and national experts who provide all the assistance required, through the United Nations Development Programme and with the full support of the European Union and its member States, Sweden, Canada and the United Kingdom;     - Support the electoral process with biosafety standards and measures through the Pan-American Health Organization." Yeah, right.

  In August with most New Yorkers locked down or, if they leave the City and returned, harassed by contact tracers, Guterres has done on an unannounced publicly funded vacation.

For two Saturday in a row Inner City Press streamed video of the mansion, empty. August 1 here. July 25 empty here. Then on August 5 UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq who refuses Inner City Press' written questions belatedly said Guterres in "away" and will quarantine according to the regulations, again at public expense, when he returns.

  They are lying. On August 11 Inner City Press between court cases it is covering biked by the Sutton Place mansion Guterres is supposedly quarantining in. Just during its 20 minutes there, two separate men went in and out of the mansion without any masks on, carrying with them whatever Guterres brought back. Video here.
Full Periscope stream here. This is not quarantine. From the UN to Inner City Press' written questions, no answer, on August 12.

  But on August 12, from departing Dutch PR Karel van Oosterom, this: "Honoured to be received by SG @UN @antonioguterres for a farewell visit. Gave him my book," and a photo.

  And another UNanswered question: "Did this meeting with @AntonioGuterres take place this week? Because after his secret 3 week vacation out of NYC he is supposedly under quarantine procedures - though he had 2 maskless men in mansion yesterday. cc @NYCMayor."

Where is NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio? This is corruption.

 As Inner City Press reported on August 4 when Haq and Melissa Fleming had it removed before it could ask a question on Guterres' lame "policy brief" on COVID-19 and education, Guterres' embargoed video was filmed July 23. This shows guilty knowledge.

  In March at public expense his wife Catarina Vaz Pinto was with him, just as she was in September 2019 in expensive seats at the US Open tennis tournament as Guterres - and she? - censored the Press.

   Catarina Vaz Pinto is no longer only Lisbon's Minister of Culture - she is now, somewhat absurdly, the "Minister of International Relations" of the city. In that role she was in Madrid, at an event making light of the spread of Coronavirus which Guterres is helping spread, while UN Spokesperson Stephan Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refuse all Inner City Press questions.

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