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UN GATE / SDNY COURT, April 4 –    The corruption of the UN system of Antonio Guterres is exemplified today by the UN Mission in South Sudan, see below. Even wider, it is with WHO: An online petition calling for the resignation of World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is gaining, with over 718,000 signatures, asserting that the United Nations health official and the organizational efforts towards the coronavirus outbreak were unacceptable.

Here is a staged Q&A with David Shearer, including the UN's lack of precautions:

Leda Limann: The next set of questions are again for you, SRSG, these are national staff specific. The majority of UNMISS staff have family members in Uganda. Can you please engage with Ugandan authorities to allow them to be with their families after COVID tests are negative? This one may be for Qazi. For national staff given the option to work from home, will the mission provide compensation for the purchase of internet data for use at home? SRSG: This is a bit tricky because for national staff, obviously, their country is here, and we expect them to work here and that is why we employ national staff because they are here. I think, what we can certainly look at what happens in the future, I am in contact with the Resident Coordinator in Uganda to see what options there are to visit family members. But it is not possible for the moment to evacuate people from South Sudan to Uganda because they are South Sudanese, that is why they are here. But we will look at the possibility of being able to access their families. At the moment, we have got no ability to be allowed into Uganda. Nobody has the possibility of entering Uganda and, likewise, coming back into South Sudan. So, we are a bit caught but let’s see what happens in the future.

  Leda Limann: National staff use the shuttle bus twice daily and the social distancing is not maintained in the bus. Is the mission taking any measures on this? 

   Nope... The United Nations held a four speakers, one M.C. event to raise funds for itself off of Coronavirus on March 25.

But three of  the participants had refused to make public even the UN's bare-bones financial disclosures: Mark Lowcock, Henrietta Fore of UNICEF and Melissa Fleming.

The head man, Antonio Guterres, has lied on his form, omitting his financial links to convicted UN briber CEFC China Energy. So their credibility to ask for more money is questionable. Guterres wears a mask.

  A fish rots from the head - Guterres - so at WHO Bruce Aylward when asked about Taiwan first pretended not to hear - then when called it insisted he had already talked about China. Video here.

   Since then, day after day, Inner City Press has in writing asked Guterres and his spokespeople, Stephane Dujarric, Farhan Haq, the censoring screening and Melissa Fleming, for their comment and action on this shameful WHO action. No answer at all, just jokes about rats taking over the UN. It's not a joke: it's true.

  Now this: "Hong Kong’s government said public broadcaster RTHK breached its charter by asking the World Health Organization about Taiwan’s membership, a move democracy advocates criticized as a new government effort to muzzle the press.  The Commerce and Economic Development Bureau said Thursday that Radio Television Hong Kong’s interview with WHO official Bruce Aylward violated the principle that Taiwan belongs to “one China.” A now-viral video of Aylward’s awkward exchange with the RTHK presenter put renewed focus on China’s efforts to prevent Taiwan from cooperating with the global health agency during the pandemic.   ADVERTISING   “The secretary holds the view that the presentation in that episode of the aforesaid program has breached the one-China principle and the purposes and mission of RTHK as a public service broadcaster as specified in the charter,” the bureau said, referring to Commerce Secretary Edward Yau. “It is common knowledge that the WHO membership is based on sovereign states. RTHK, as a government department and a public service broadcaster, should have proper understanding of the above without any deviation.”  An RTHK spokesperson said the station had reviewed the program and found no violation of its charter. Taiwan was referred to as “a place” in the episode and no stance was taken, the spokesperson said." And what will the UN say? Answer: Whatever Guterres' pay-master China tells him to say.

This is how corrupt the UN is under Guterres, who now tries to hide behind mask(s).

  Now Guterres is ghoulishly bragging about giving New York City some masks - the same UN which brought cholera to Haiti, killing 10,000 people and paying not a penny, and which has been covering up COVID-19. Even if NYC's pro-UN office echoes praise, the UN of Guterres is corrupt and lawless: "the donation of 250,000 protective face masks, just located in United Nations stores in New York, to the United States.       These masks, in surplus to United Nations requirements, will be given to the medical professionals in New York City who have been working courageously, selflessly, and tirelessly in response to the spread of COVID-19 across the boroughs in the hope that they play some small role in saving lives.     We speak with one voice to express our resolute support for this great city and its proud people.  To us, New York is not just our home or the headquarters of the United Nations.  It is a vibrant international capital through which the world communicates, debates, trades, and prospers.  On behalf of the UN community and the diplomatic corps, we sincerely hope this modest donation makes a difference.       United Nations and US Mission personnel are currently working with the Mayor’s office to ensure the swift delivery of this equipment to medical facilities around the city.     New York, 28 March 2020."

  There was a photo op with the masks, same personnel and then gate as this video, here.

    Inner City Press, which for asking these questions has been banned from the UN for 631 days by Guterres and M.C. Melissa Fleming (who has not filed her financial disclosure), streamed their event along with analysis, here on Twitter, here on Periscope.  It also submitted questions through the UN's Periscope feed.

   But the questions Fleming picked, in advance and seeming providing them to Guterres in advance, were from China state media Xinhua, Radio France, etc. To this has the UN sunk under Guterres. We'll have more on this. 

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