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UNSC President France Reads G5 Statement
On Human Rights While Silent on Cameroon
Partners with Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, June 5 –
In the United Nations from
which SG Antonio Guterres has
banned Inner City Press 699
days for asking about his
complicity in the killing of
civilians in Cameroon and
their mass imprisonment by
China in Xinjiang, on June 1
French Ambassador Nicolas de
Riviere (and July's president
German Ambassador Christoph
Heusgen) held a censored
online press conference about
the coming month(s) in the
Security Council.
Now on
June 5, with France silent on
its ally Cameroon killing
journalist Sam Wazizi (French
UN spokesperson Stephane
Dujarric de la Riviere won't
even take the question), this
was read out by Nicolas
de Riviere: "The members of
the Security Council held a
closed VTC on Peace and
security in Africa, G5 Sahel,
following an open VTC on the
same topic with the
participation of USG Lacroix
and the Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Mauritania, Mr
Ismail Ould Cheikh
Ahmed.
They commended the G5 Sahel
joint force for its increased
operational tempo and
encouraged the continuation of
these efforts. They also
welcomed the Pau Summit of 13
January 2020, which proposed a
“Coalition for the Sahel” and
other initiatives led by
ECOWAS, the AU and the
EU.
They reaffirmed the importance
of MINUSMA’s support to the G5
Sahel joint force and took
note of the Secretary-General
assessment on the matter...
They took note of the measures
taken and announced by several
Sahel governments to deal with
the allegations of human
rights violations and
encouraged their
finalization."
Ah, human rights
- while banning a journalist
from asking the UN about a
head of state killing a
journalist. We'll have more on
this.
On June 1
they took questions only from
pre-screened in-house
correspondents, ignoring or
even pretending not to see a
question about Cameroon by
Inner City Press. Twitter here,
Periscope here.
Neither
said a word about the
slaughter in Cameroon; they
did not answer Inner City
Press on-line question about
new cases of UN sex abuse,
including a child rape in
South Sudan by UNMISS data
dumped by the UN on June 1.
The
Program belatedly went up -
with countries on which the
two ambassadors ignored and
censored questions: DRC, Mali,
South Sudan. We'll have more
on this.
Back on
February 3, before Coronavirus
hit New York (but after the
first cases covered up in
Wuhan in December 2019)
Belgian Ambassador Marc
Pecsteen de Buytswerve held an
in person but also
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.
Watch this site.
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