| UN Refuses Answers on
Coronavirus Even As MWC Cancelled in Barcelona
UNchecked
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Feb 16 –
The United Nations has
assiduously avoided answering
Press questions about its
response to Coronavirus.
Publicly UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres and his officials
have lavished praise on China
for its response, without
answering on the disappearance
of a journalist who exposed
them on it.
Now that the tech
giants the UN has turned
itself over to, as it has to China,
have canceled
the Mobile World Congress 2020
even though it was to be in
Barcelona, the question is
more Pressing: what
precautions has the UN taken
given the travel to and from
it, on unaccountable
diplomatic passports, of
diplomats and others from the
epicenter of the virus?
Previously the UN
refused to answer then
in-house Inner City Press
about its response to New York
City's Legionnaires disease.
The UN did not even take the
precautions taken by apartment
buildings in The Bronx. But in
that case, the UN even with
its standing water in its
traffic circle foundation was
no more risky that any other
NYC building.
Not so with
Coronavirus, given the travel
in and out of the UN,
precisely the risk that led
largely liberal tech titans to
cancel MWC2020. There is also
the question of the tourists
coming on busses and charged
$20 to enter, which
investigative Inner City Press
is banned from an any price. The
UN is silent and
unaccountable. Perhaps this
time they will be held to
account - the question has
begun to be asked, starting here.
Here prior to
that are questions that Inner
City Press, roughed up by the
UN Security Antonio Guterres
and and banned for 593 days
says, has put in writing to
Guterres, his spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric, Farhan Haq
and now Eri Kaneko, and global
communications chief Melissa
Fleming, without any answer at
all despite formal
and on
camera promises to
answer:
January
29-1: On Coronavirus,
are UN interns and contractors
in Wuhan and elsewhere in
China covered by any UN health
insurance?
February
11-2: On China, what are
SG Guterres comments and
action if any on the video of
Chinese authorities welding
people into their homes to die
of coronavirus?
February
11-10: On press freedom
and China what are the
comments and actions if any of
SG Guterres and separately USG
Melissa Fleming on the
disappearance of
journalist Chen Qiushi, a
freelance video journalist,
traveled to the city of Wuhan
in Hubei province from Beijing
on January 24 and began
filming and reporting on the
health crisis in the city? On
February 6, he told his family
that he planned to report on a
temporary hospital, and has
not been seen since..
February
14-4: On coronavirus and
UN Peacekeeping what are the
comments and actions if any of
SG Guterres and USG Lacroix,
including any impact on
deployment of peacekeepers
from China and elsewhere, on
that coronavirus is spreading
among members of the Chinese
military and armed police,
with thousands placed under
quarantine to prevent further
contagion, according to the
Hong Kong-based ICHRD?
Ten soldiers within the
People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
and 15 armed police officers
have tested positive for
COVID-19 in Hubei Province,
according to the ICHRD, which
added that 1,500 soldiers and
1,000 armed police are under
quarantine.
No answers at
all. The UN of Antonio
Guterres is irresponsible, and
now dangerous. It should be
held to account. Watch this
site.
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