| On Somalia UN Guterres Refuses
Questions Now UNSC Statement As Press Banned
1061st Day
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon YouTube
BBC
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PFT
UN GATE, May 1 –
UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres first threw the
investigative Press out of the
UN, then even to the pliant
state media he left in,
canceled his scheduled press
conference on January 28.
Instead he held a closed door
meeting - which banned Inner
City Press live-streamed (I,
II, III)
and now posts portions of on
YouTube, here.
In May
2021, banned Inner City Press
has repeatedly asked Guterres
and his spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa Fleming
about Somalia (and Kenya, and
Somalialand), while Guterres
tries to steal a second term.
Now on May
28, this: "The members of the
Security Council welcomed the
agreement reached on 27 May at
the summit convened by Prime
Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble
on the implementation of the
17 September electoral model.
They commended Somalia’s
leaders for putting Somalia’s
stability, security and
development, and the best
interests of the Somali people
first.
The members of the Security
Council welcomed the
commitment to hold peaceful,
transparent, inclusive and
credible elections, which
respect the agreed-upon
minimum 30% women’s quota in
parliament.
The members of the Security
Council encouraged Somalia’s
leaders to maintain this
positive momentum so that
elections can take place
within 60 days as agreed."
This as the UNSC
refused to circulate the
letters and CVs of opponents
of Guterres, including Inner
City Press. A request has been
put in to Estonia as president
of the UNSC for June. Watch
this site.
Back on January
31, UN system staff who have
gotten no response from
Guterres and his spokespeople
have written to Inner City
Press: "Dear Mr. Lee,
Below is a brief email to
senior leadership team on the
subject matter in Mogadisgu.
We have written and written
kindly you are surely our
saviour. Many thanks:
To UN officials and
spokespeople including kaneko
[at] un.org Sent: Wednesday,
January 29, 2020,
Subject: Witch craft in
office
Dear Senior Leadership
Team, It would be nice
to protect our lives in
Mogadishu.Whereas we are under
tense operation in the field
our field leadership team in
particular program Director -
Ms. Qurat - Ul-Ain Sadozai is
busy practicing witch craft in
office. We are a mixed
community here and its very
unfortunate that this issue
has been brought to senior
leadership team but with no
solution. Please we kindly
request quick attention over
this woman we can no longer
stand this in a public
office. Witch craft is
an out dated method of keeping
jobs we need help
please! UNMAS Staffs
from Somalia Field
Office." We'll have more
on this
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