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Guterres Covered up Ukraine
Invasion Brags of Food but Knows
Nothing of Grain in Lebanon
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UN GATE / SDNY,
July 31 – As he slowly kills
the UN, Antonio Guterres has
misplayed Ukraine at every
stage.
He assured that
there would be no invasion,
then through Melissa Fleming's
Department of Global
Communications ordered UN
officials to not call it an
invasion or a war.
After behind
chided, below, he tried to get
back in the game through food.
From an
undeserved vacation, he flew
to Istanbul and bloviated that
"the initiative we just signed
opens a path for significant
volumes of commercial food
exports from three key
Ukrainian ports in the Black
Sea – Odesa, Chernomorsk and
Yuzhny."
Through
deputy spokesman Farhan Haq -
lead and longtime spokesman
Stephane Dujarric was also on
vacation - he refused to make
his deal with Russia public.
On July 23, this:
"The Secretary-General
unequivocally condemns
reported strikes today in the
Ukrainian port of
Odesa.
Yesterday, all parties made
clear commitments on the
global stage to ensure the
safe movement of Ukrainian
grain and related products to
global markets."
Not so clear. He
tried to cover up the source
of teh "reported strikes,"
from location once again
unknown. This continued even
as Russia's former UN
spokesperson said Russian
missiles "destroyed a military
infrastructure target" in a
"high-precision strike" that
sunk a Mikraining military
vessel.
Once
again, predictably and some
would say intentionally,
Guterres got played. Because
he's spend six years (so far)
calling Putin papacito. Week
21 song here;
Week 22 song (on Odesa) here.
Week 23
song (on POWs) here.
Now
dubious grain has arrived in
Lebanon where prosecutor
Ghassan Kvedat has appointed
police to investigate the
cargo of “Laodicea” that had
arrived in the port of
Tripoli. He “ordered the
confiscation of the ship until
the completion of the
investigation.” The
shipping company of “Laodicea”
belongs to a Turkish citizen
and the grain belonged to a
Syrian merchant, as explained
by the official. So a part of
the cargo was supposed to be
unloaded in Lebanon, the rest
was destined for Syria.
And from the
still on vacation Guterres? In
a briefing he banned Inner
City Press from, "We have no
first-hand information."
Typical Guterres.
Previously: at
the United Nations under
Antonio Guterres fails on
Ukriane, belatedly some former
UN officials wrote to
Guterres, (too) gently chiding
him for presiding over the
UN's morphing into the a
League of Nations, useless and
now defunct.
On April 15
they wrote: "As former staff
members of the UN system, we,
the undersigned... implore you
to intensify your personal
efforts, deploying all
capabilities at your disposal
and acting upon lessons learnt
from previous conflicts, for
the cessation of
hostilities."
Inner City
Press, banned from the UN by
Guterres, has reviewed the
signatories, see one below and
Dimitry Dovgopoly we've asked
about. UN associate
Spokesperson Eri Kaneko,
refusing to answer, on April
22 announced: "The
Secretary-General will visit
Moscow, in the Russian
Federation, on April
[26th]. He
will have a working meeting
and lunch with Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov. The
Secretary-General will be
received by President Vladimir
Putin."
Kaneko actually
said April 25, but they later
fixed it. But the Russian
government says only that
Guterres will meet Lavrov. As
Inner City Press noted,
maybe only if Guterres is
obsequious with Lavrov as
usual will he get face time
with Putin, his papacito.
Hours later, the
UN put this out, trying to
mirror the "received by"
language but not explaining
why Russia doensn't mention
Putin - nor that he is being
used to normalize the
slaughter. Guterres is the
worst SG ever - and that's
saying something.
On April 26
cowering under Sergey Lavrov
when asked of US expulsion of
Russian spies including a UN
staff member, Guterres said,
"we believe that it is very
important that all Member
States, including the Russian
Federation, have a normal
treatment of their visa
requirements. It is essential
to have the full participation
of all countries in UN
procedures. And we will be
keeping a very strong position
with the host country in order
to guarantee that we move
swiftly in that direction."
Guterres lazed around on
genocide but expulsion of
spies? He's all over it. Then
he met Putin, long table video
here.
On April 28 the
UN put out this transcript
from Kyev, intentionally
making a question Guterres
didn't like "inaudible," then
his dissing of the
question(er) -- "Question:
[inaudible]
Secretary-General: That's
exactly what you want, is for
me to say things that would
not facilitate the work that
we are doing at the present
moment, which is to guarantee
that that happens. I cannot
admit that it will not happen.
If it will not happen, I will
take the right decisions at
the right moment." Guterres
only makes decisions for
himself, and has banned the
Press to not answer it
questions, today on two
new UN rapes.
Back on April 24
Igor
Zhovkva,
Zelensky's top
diplomatic
advisor said,
"This
is not good idea to travel to
Moscow. We did not understand
his intention to travel to
Moscow and to talk to
President Putin. Any peace
talks are good if they end
with a result," Zhovkva said.
"I really doubt if those peace
talks organized by
Secretary-General of the UN
will end up with any result."
He added, "UN is lagging
behind in Ukraine in terms of
humanitarian support to my
country. So it would be good
if UN Secretary-General would
concentrate on these things as
well."
US Antony
Blinken, leaving Kyiv, was
asked: "Secretary Blinken, I
understand you may have spoken
with the UN secretary-general
about his upcoming
visit. What is the
strategy for engaging – for
his engagement or for
(inaudible) engagement with
Moscow and Kyiv to see if
(inaudible)?"
Blinken said: "I
spoke to the UN
secretary-general on Friday
and he is heading to Moscow
early this week, and our
expectation is that he’s going
to carry a very strong and
clear message to Vladimir
Putin, which is the need to
end this war now – the need
for a ceasefire; the need for
humanitarian corridors, for
aid to get in, for people to
be able to get out; the need
for Russia to stop its
brutalization of
Ukraine. It’s a clear,
direct message that he should
be carrying on behalf of
virtually the entire
international community."
First, the UN
never have a read out of, or
even mentioned, this call.
Today's UN spokespeople, who
ban Inner City Press which
asks, are liars.
Second, If
Blinken really believes
Guterres will "carry a strong
message," he is not paying
attention. And his State
Department, whose Lauren Rapp
was to convey the request of
law firm Quinn Emanuel about
UN censorship of Press but has
done nothing, takes over the
UNSC in May. We will have much
more on this.
Watch this site.
As to the
letter that belatedly raised
Guterres from his corrupt
slumber, into corrupt
"action," here's a signer:
Flavia Pansieri, implicated in
the UN's cover
up of the rape of
children in the Central
African Republic by (French)
UN Peacekeepers. Inner City
Press asked about this
- before Guterres had it
roughed and banned. And what
of the signatories done about
that? We'll have more on this.
Guterres
couldn't or wouldn't resolve
or reduce even a smaller
conflict like Cameroon's Paul
Biya killing the Anglophones.
But who are these former UN
officials? We'll have more on
this.
They wrote, "we
are horrified at the
alternative, the UN becoming
increasingly irrelevant and,
eventually, succumbing to the
fate of its predecessor, the
League of
Nations."
Today's UN
is worse that the League of
Nations, which never had
personnel raping children in
Africa and Haiti and then
flying home with impunity,
while the head man and his
censor (here, Melissa Fleming)
ban the Press that asks what
is being done for the
Organization's victims. Banned
Inner City Press will have
more on this, as well.
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