| China Takes Over UNSC Spinning
Coronavirus Nothing About Cameroon Like SG
Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, March 2
– In the United Nations from
which SG Antonio Guterres has
banned Inner City Press 608
days for asking about his
complicity in the killing of
civilians in Cameroon and
their mass imprisonment by
China in Xinjiang, on March 2
Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun
held a press conference about
the coming month in the
Security Council.
He said
not a word about the slaughter
in Cameroon; his opening
remark on Africa was all about
terrorism, a concept 38-year
president Paul Biya uses to
justifying killing Anglophones
who want a referendum.
The first
question went to a
correspondent who recently
went on a junket to China
positively covered by Xinhua,
the organ of the Chinese
Communist Party. The purpose?
To say everything is getting
better on Coronavirus and Xi
is showing strength.
Zhang Jun
was served up a softball about
Xinhua, then gave the next
question TO Zinhua. This is
what the UN has become under
Antonio Guterres, who to
conceal his financial links to
convicted UN briber CEFC China
Energy has banned the Press.
The
program, to be fair since
Inner City Press continues to
report on the UN Security
Council despite the
self-serving ban by corrupt
Guterres, it's Iraq March 3,
South Sudan March 4, Big
Tony's Big Lunch on March 5.
March 10, the Salame-less
Libya; March 11 "Africa,"
March 12 Yemen. March 17,
Lebanon, March 23 DR Congo
where UN peacekeepers commit
rapes covered up by Guterres
(March 24). March 25 Somalia,
25 Middle East, 27 Afghistan
and March 30, Syria
(political). Watch this site.
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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