| UN PGA Spox
Paulina Kubiak Takes Public Money Without
Answering Press Questions
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Nov 19 – The
United Nations under SG
Antonio Guterres turns people
into thieves and censors.
Today's example
is the new
spokesperson
for UN General
Assembly
President Abdulla
Shahid. Previous
UN PGAs John Ashe
(who was
indicted for
corruption
then died under a
barbell) and
Sam Kutesa
were shown
to take bribes. The
UN said future
PGAs would
disclose who
pays each
of their
staff members.
But
Shahid refuses
to. His past spokesperson
quit. The
job has
gone to Paulina
Kubiak, at one
point
perfectly
friendly at
the UN Media
Accreditation
and
Liaison Unit
which
implemented
Guterres throw-out-the-Press order.
She
tweeted - as
Paulina Greer
-- that she
was holding a
press briefing
on November
19. Inner
City Press
emailed her
and the
Office's Carl
Mercer
this, at 1 pm:
"Hi -
this is a
Press question
about the UN
PGA's office,
in light of
the previous
corruption
scandals of
PGA John Ashe
with Ng Lap
Seng, and Sam
Kutesa with
Patrick Ho of
CEFC China
Energy,
etc
It was was in
the wake of
those SDNY
convictions
that future
PGAs would
disclose who
paid each of
their staff
members.
But the
current PGA
says only "The
staff of the
Office of the
President of
the General
Assembly
(OPGA) are
identifiable
through their
biographies on
the
website."
That does not
identify
funding.
Please on
deadline
provide the
funding
informatoin,
and explain
why it was not
provided until
now.
Also, please
ensure that
Inner City
Press which
has covered
this issues
about and in
the UN for
some time, but
is currently
banned due to
UN censorship,
can enter the
UN to cover
the GA and PGA
- please
provide your
response to
this
immediately.
Please confirm
receipt, and
thank you for
your
attention."
More than six
hours later,
nothing at all.
It is a crime
to take public
money to not do
your job, to
be a censor
and not a spokesperson,
and to cover
up corruption
and lack of
transparency.
It came on a week
that the IMF, by contrast,
answered Inner City Press'
questions on Myanmar, Ethiopia
/ Tigray, Chad and Zambia,
here. Kubiak's is censorship;
to take public money to not do
one's job is theft.
This is simply
stealing public money,
particularly given the polite
letter from the Quinn Emanuel
law firm sent in July to the
UN's Melissa Fleming and the UN's
partners. No answers,
though receipted was confirmed
here.
And note that UN
Spokesman Stephane Dujarric
said, on camera, "We continue
to answer e-mailed questions
from Mr Lee/ Inner City
Press," here.
This is
censorship - and theft. We'll
have more, much more, on this
- as long as it takes. Watch
this site.
***
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