| Amid Sudan Staff Strike UN
Lacroix Turns Tail Evading Quarantine Rules
Like Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
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UN GATE, Oct 31 –
In the United Nations from
which SG Antonio Guterres has
banned Inner City Press 851
days for asking about his
complicity in the killing of
civilians in Cameroon and
Sudan and their mass
imprisonment by China in
Xinjiang, there are blatantly
double or triple standards
between national staff,
"regular" international staff
and then, at the top, corrupt
Tony and his cronies.
Below Inner City Press
publishes a complaint sent to
it on October 31 by UN
national staff in Sudan,
screwed as the UN and AU close
down the failed but cash cow
UNAMID mission.
The
complaint was triggered by the
total contempt shown to them
by Tony's head of
peacekeeping, the sixth
Frenchman in a row to hold the
post, Jean-Pierre Lacroix. He
is traveling around, which
would in New York require a
two week quarantine upon
return.
(Guterres
complained of this in a Zoom
call with diplomats that Inner
City Press published, with
Guterres bragged he's doing to
Boston to meet a plane from
Portugal, evading the rules
amid the UN Covid outbreak).
So can it
be that Guterres lets his
highest cronies live wherever
in the world they want, on the
public dime, while "regular"
international staff were all
told they had to return to
their duty stations like New
York, or not get paid? Who
else has this secret and
sleazy deal? Guterres'
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming refuse to
answer any of Inner City
Press' written questions, so
we'll find out in other ways -
watch this site.
The Sudan
national staff says they have
been in a sit-in strike in
front of the mission since
August. But gallivanting
Lacroix didn't even stop to
see them. We'll have more on
this, too.
Back on
September 1 Inner City Press
wrote to the Niger Mission, as
incoming UN Security Council
president, with questions
about Cameroon, Somalia and
UNsexploitation.
The email
address on the Niger Mission's
UN web page did not work; it
bounced back. A Direct Message
on Twitter to @Niger_ONU was
not answered.
And now as
the UN closes down for COVID
spread multiple sources told
Inner City Press it is the
Niger Mission. Inner City
Press was the first to report
this. And also, Guterres'
sleazy plan to evade
quarantine, even now, and
spread it to Boston.
The
United Nations
General
Assembly in
New York will
be closed on
October 27 as
at least five
members on a
member state's
mission have
tested
positive for
COVID-19,
letter first
tweeted by
Inner City
Press here
and
below.
But
many
hours later,
at 8:30 am on
October 27,
still nothing from
Guterers or
his Media
Acceditation and
Liaison Unit.
It is surmised
that Guterres,
ever selfish,
still wants to
slip away to
Boston and
meet a plane
from Lisbon
this coming
weekend. As if
Massachusetts
should let him
in without quarantining
there? No answers.
"Following
information from the
Secretariat regarding five
COVID infections at a Mission
of a Member State, the advice
of the Medical Unit is to
cancel in-person meetings at
UNHQ tomorrow, Tuesday 27
October, pending contact
tracing. Accordingly, after
consulting the Main Committee
Chairs, and in light of the
need to safeguard public
health, all in-person meetings
of the Main Committees of the
General Assembly tomorrow are
cancelled."
This is
the UN whose Secretary General
Antonio Guterres, a week ago
bragged about evading
quarantine, video here.
This while his spokesman
Stephane Dujarric briefing
maskless in a windowless room,
five feet from equally
maskless correspondents from
Al Jazeera and other state
media, here.
Their UN should leave New
York.
This as Sani I.
Mahamadou, Deputy Chief of
Staff to Niger's president,
bragged online of a "Very big
day for Niger, who begins his
month of presidency of the
United Nations Security
Council." They're off to a
terrible start.
Apparently
Niger PR Abdou Abarry could
only handle questions from
pre-screened in-house
correspondents, one of whose
media has no
story by her since
2017, another with
no stories at all, at
least one - actually, more --
a repeated #MeToo violator.
Periscope here.
Niger has
not said a word about the
slaughter in Cameroon, nor
about the UN Peacekeeping
sexploitation exposed by Inner
City Press.
The
Program belatedly went up -
with countries on which Niger
ignored and censored
questions: Myanmar, Somalia,
where UNMAS sent local staff
to be killed, and Colombia and
South Sudan. There will be
Francophonie on September 8.
We have now written directly
to the Mission's 404 spokesman
- and will have more on this.
When Guterres'
spokes- / hatchetman Stephane
Dujarric holds his noon
briefings this month while
refusing all questions from
Inner City Press despite an on
camera promise.
And Indonesia? We'll report.
Watch this site.
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