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UN GATE, June 29 – The United Nations claims to have a zero tolerance for sexual exploitation by its staff and peacekeepers, but routinely covers up their abuses including the rape of children, withholding basic information which was provided to the Press under Ban Ki-moon but not now under Antonio Guterres. 

  While covering up UN sexploitation in Tel Aviv, on June 29 this knee jerk from the UN: "The Secretary-General strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the stock exchange in Karachi, Pakistan, on 29 June. He  conveys his deep condolences to the families of the victims and the people and Government of Pakistan.   The Secretary-General reiterates the solidarity of the United Nations with the Government and people of Pakistan in their efforts to address terrorism and violent extremism.  Stephane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General." Dujarric covers up child rapes.

   Inner City Press, which Guterres has banned from the UN for 724 days as it asks about these and his abuses, on June 23 received from outraged UN whistleblowers video of sexual exploitation, they said, in a white UN-marked vehicle, here.  Now Instagram, Facebook.

  Now early on June 29 Inner City Press has asked Guterres, Melissa Fleming, Stephane Dujarric and others: "This is a formal request from Inner City Press for the pass code(s) to be able to participate in and ask questions in today's United Nations noon briefing.  

For the reason set for below, to not immediately this morning grant this timely request would be both censorship and a cover up - Inner City Press on the afternoon of June 23 asked each of you about the UN sexploitation in UN vehicle video which it first published. On the morning of June 28 Inner City Press published and asked about the two men multiple UN whistleblowers tell it are the ones seen in the UN vehicle. Inner City Press has a right to ask this question of the UN, and to get an answer.  

 Note that only this morning June 29 the IMF again took, read out and answered Inner City Press' questions, on Cameroon, Botswana, Republic of Congo, etc. It is shameful for the UN that you block the Press - and telling.    Inner City Press has additional information and questions and has a right to ask them. Unless, of course, this "investigation" is just a cover up. Inner City Press, which was been provided information from UN whistleblowers, has not been contacted as part of this "investigation." See, e.g., June 27, 2020, "UN chief ‘shocked’ by video of sex act in official car in Israel," "The video, released by Inner City Press on Tuesday, shows a woman in a red dress straddling a man in the back seat of a vehicle with U.N. marking as it drives away. Inner City Press, an outlet that has reported and shined a light on corruption at the world body for years and was banned from reporting on U.N. grounds in New York in 2018, reports that the vehicle was part of a U.N. Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) mission in Tel Aviv, Israel," here.    Yesterday Inner City Press posed this question to UNTSO and Ms Fleming and Mr. Guterres - no answer: 

From: Matthew Russell Lee
Date: Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 2:13 PM
Subject: Press Q: confirm or deny that Michael Antoine is with UNTSO (& his role in this). Same Q re Ray Milan. On deadline. Please immediately confirm receipt. Thanks in advance To: Antonio Guterres, Melissa Fleming, Judy Hylton, Sophie Boudre

This is a Press question on deadline:  Please confirm or deny that Michael Antoine, whose past promotions and transfers out of UNTSO including to the UN-OPCW mission in Syria Inner City Press has previously asked the UN spokesmen about without answer, is with UNTSO (and his role in this).   Same question regarding Ray Milan. On deadline. Please immediately confirm receipt." No answer as of 11 am. Guterres' UN is corrupt.

  And this, more closely reported than BBC: "The video, released by Inner City Press on Tuesday, shows a woman in a red dress straddling a man in the back seat of a vehicle with U.N. marking as it drives away.    Inner City Press, an outlet that has reported and shined a light on corruption at the world body for years and was banned from reporting on U.N. grounds in New York in 2018, reports that the vehicle was part of a U.N. Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) mission in Tel Aviv, Israel."

  Inner City Press had been informed in detail by UNTSO and Tel Aviv sources of the history of prostitution - which the UN calls sexual exploitation and claims it has zero tolerance for - at work here. HaYarkon Street is well known for prostitution, and now hotels are closed by COVID-19. There is also a history of those in the UN vehicle.

 On June 25 Inner City Press asked more than a dozen UN officials in New York in writing, "June 25-1: As I asked each of you in writing yesterday, "This is a formal request for UNSG Guterres' comment and action on the video Inner City Press has uploaded of UN sexual exploitation in a UN marked vehicle here (as of noon June 26 with more than 10,000 views on Twitter, more on other platforms)   NOW - today - before SG Guterres "press" conference - Inner City Press is informed by UN whistleblower is is UNTSO Plate 205 in Jerusalem, the man in the back from Trinidad, front from Puerto Rico. WHAT HAS GUTERRES DONE?"

  They never answered. On June 28 Inner City Press asked Guterres, Melissa Fleming and UNTSO: "confirm or deny that Michael Antoine, whose past promotions and transfers out of UNTSO including to the UN-OPCW mission in Syria Inner City Press has previously asked the UN spokesmen about without answer, is with UNTSO (and his role in this).   Same question regarding Ray Milan." No answer.

  We now report - Milan is, as Inner City Press asked and reported, from Puerto Rico. And in the back, Michael Antoine has both Trinidadian and US citizenship - and quite a history. Inner City Press previously asked the UN about him (for example here). and his sponsor / Godfather Fadil Abdullah, since promoted out to UNICEF in Sudan. Inner City Press asked the UN about him, again, in 2019, here - no answer. UN cover ups.

  Whistleblowers exclusively tell Inner City Press this is being covered up: Antoine is "protected."  He is known in all the bars of Jerusalem.  The military observers know him as the jackass. That is his nickname.  Military observers were told not to place complaints about his antics, that nothing would be done.  They would see his UN vehicle out late in the bars in Jerusalem. He would drive with Ray to Haifa Russian bars.  Ray Milan and Antoine would also use prostitutes regularly.   Senior management refuse to address the misdeeds of civilian staff.  Antoine is part of culture of civilian UN staff who are undisciplined and there is no accountability.   Antoine had many Palestinian girlfriends and this would also cause problems for UN. Guterres is to blame for this.

  Inner City Press has been encouraged by UN staff to publish this now to try to ensure that Guterres doesn't once again cover up for a "whoremonger." They say Guterres should resign.

  Inner City Press has written to UNTSO and Guterres and Melissa Fleming about Antoine and... no response.

 Inner City Press formally requested the code to ask questions at the June 26 UN noon briefing, including to a UN Peacekeeping official who spoke there, misleading, about COVID-19 - and Inner City Press will continue to demand re-accreditation.

  On June 26, despite the story now being reported from Austria to Israel to Switzerland, those let in from Al Jazeera and other publications asked nothing. We'll have more on this. Watch this site.

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