| Amid COVID
Lockdown in NYC UN Guterres To Fly To
Germany Then Stay For UK January
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 15 – How corrupt is
today's United Nations?
Well, just as New
York prepares to go into
another COVID-19 lockdown, its
Secretary General prepares to
fly off to Germany and the
presumably to his real home in
Portugal, before slipping back
into New York evade quarantine
rules that applies to others.
Now UK
Permanent Representative
Barbara Woodward has tweeted,
"My Prime Minister is looking
forward to welcoming you to
London in January to mark
#UN75." So,
"does
@AntonioGuterres leaving
NY for Germany tomorrow Dec
16, as NYC moves to COVID
Pause of Lockdown, and this
"London in January" mean that
he'll be spending public money
in Lisbon from mid Dec into
January, amid the pandemic?
When would he come back to
UNHQ?" This has been asked
publicly - no answer.
Nor to this,
emailed to Guterres, his
deputy Amina J. Mohammed,
chief of staff Viotti and
spokespeople: " How can
it be that, given the
impending lockdown for COVID
in NY, and the situation in
Germany, that SG Guterres is
flying there, instead of
speaking by Zoom? When is SG
Guterres scheduled to return
to NY? Will he be going to
Lisbon? Is that, as some
surmise, the goal of the
ill-considered / bad example
trip?"
During the
pandemic, Guterres has already
sneaked off to Portugal twice.
He has allowed his UN Security
to keep their gym open when
all other gyms in NYC have
been closed. When banned Inner
City Press asked in writing
about this, Guterres'
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming have
refused to answer. It is
impunity. He should not
return.
From the December
14 UN transcript:
Dujarric: I have a trip
announcement for you. The
Secretary-General will travel
on Wednesday to Berlin, where
he will address the German
Parliament on Friday morning.
While in Berlin, he will also
meet with Chancellor Angela
Merkel, President Frank-Walter
Steinmeier and Foreign
Minister Heiko Maas.
Q: it's his first
personal trip since March;
right?
Dujarric: It is
his first official trip. As
you may have recalled, he went
home twice to see his
family.
Question:
Yeah. So the question is, why
is it so important to go to
Germany, in particular taking
into account the current
strict COVID measures in
Germany right now... and if
he's going to quarantine after
his arrival back to New
York?
Dujarric: A
couple of things. We may have
more travel to announce. I
will tell you that the way
we're... travel is organised,
safety is first and foremost.
The Secretary‑General will be
tested before leaving, as will
his
delegation.
This was a very important
invitation on behalf... by the
German Government. It's not
every day that a
Secretary‑General is invited
to address the Bundestag. So,
we've accepted the
invitation.
The Secretary‑General will, of
course, follow all regulations
pertinent to the city and
state of New York upon return
when he is in New York."
And
when would that be? Is this
just a pretext to spend public
money to go to Lisbon, where
Guterres took money from
Gulbenkian which tried to sell
its oil company to UN briber
CEFC China Energy?
Inner City Press
and its questions have been
banned from the UN for 895
days by this corrupt Guterres.
He should not return.
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