On
Mali IBK Arrested in Coup
After Journos Arrested UN
Guterres No Answer Bans Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY
Post
UN GATE, Aug 18 –
The UN
Security
Council in the
second half of
March 2020
under China's
presidency
did not hold a
single publicly-viewable
briefing or
issuance of
Press Elements,
on Mali or any
other site of
a UN Peacekeeping
mission.
Then as demonstrators
calling for
President
Keita to resign were
teargassed and at
least two
killed, there
was not a word from
the Security
Council or
even for
usually
robo-tweeting
UNSG
Antonio
Guterres. Maybe
Guterres'
silence is
because he is
cheering on
the arrest of
journalists, including
Liberté TV
journalist
Hawa Kamissoko, after
he and Stephane
Dujarric has
Inner City
Press roughed
up and
banned since,
video here.
Guterres' UN
is corrupt.
Now
on Aug 18,
IBK has been
arrested
along with his
prime
minister.
Inner City
Press in the
morning put in
a written
question to
Guterres and
his Spokesman
Dujarric, as
well as
Melissa
Fleming: "On
Mali what are
the comments
and actions if
any of SG
Guterres on
that there are
reports of
gunfire inside
an army base
near the
Malian capital
Bamako. Angry
soldiers have
been shooting
in the air and
roads have
been
blocked.
The Norwegian
embassy says
it has
received
information
that troops
are on their
way to the
capital and
the French
embassy has
advised people
to stay at
home.
Earlier there
were reports
that armed men
had abducted
the finance
minister from
his
home. It
comes as
President
Ibrahim
Boubakar Keita
is under
growing
pressure to
step down in
the face of
large
opposition
protests."
Hours
later, no
answer at all
- just
Dujarric
putting out
statements
about Cote d'Ivoire.
The UN is a
colonial joke, and
has failed
in Mali as in
Cameroon.
July
27 from the
Security Council
under
joint Franco-Germanic
presidency, in
full
censorship of
Press mode (no
answers to
written Press
questions),
this; "The
members of the
Security
Council
expressed
their deep
concern at the
latest
political
tensions in
Mali.
The members of
the Security
Council
expressed
their strong
support for
ECOWAS’
mediation
efforts,
including the
missions led
by former and
current Heads
of State of
the region and
spearheaded by
H.E. Issoufou
Mahamadou,
Chairman of
ECOWAS
Authority, and
took note of
the
recommendations
that were
endorsed today
during the
extraordinary
summit of
ECOWAS’ Heads
of
State.
The members of
the Security
Council urged
the Malian
parties to act
on these
recommendations
without delay
in order to
resolve the
tensions, to
prioritize
dialogue, and
to refrain
from any
action likely
to fuel
further
tensions and
threaten the
rule of
law.
The members of
the Security
Council
recalled the
importance of
the
implementation
of the peace
agreement and
of the
stabilization
of the Centre
of the country
as set out in
resolution
2531 (2020)
and reiterated
their support
to the Special
Representative
and to MINUSMA
in their
efforts to
bring lasting
peace and
stability in
Mali and their
attachment to
the safety and
security of
peacekeepers."
No credibility.
This as
Inner City
Press, which
reports on Mali
and South
Sudan for example
is excluded
by the UN
Secretariat
from getting promised
answers - for
example to
this question
it posed:
"what is the
UN's response
to the
massacre of
over 35 on Feb
14, 2020 an
hour after a
UN convoy had
passed
through?" --
a
censorship it
passes on to
UNSC
Presidents
including Estonia
and now France
and Germany.
Now on June 20 from
UNSG Antonio
Guterres, who
has taken his
censorship
so far as
to order "his"
Peacekeeping missions
to not answer
Press questions
and for
Melissa
Fleming to tell UN
staff to
withhold / steal
public money by withholding
video
of UN meetings
from the Press,
this: "Statement
attributable
to the
Spokesman for
the Secretary
General on
Mali
The
Secretary-General
is following
with concern
recent
political
developments
in Mali. He
expresses his
full support
for the
ongoing
efforts of the
Economic
Community of
West African
States
(ECOWAS) and
in particular
for its
declaration of
19 June
calling for an
inclusive
dialogue.
The
Secretary-General
calls on all
political
leaders to
send clear
messages to
their
supporters to
exercise
utmost
restraint and
to refrain
from any
action likely
to fuel
tensions. He
also stresses
the importance
of dialogue
and encourages
all Malian
actors to work
inclusively
and
constructively
to preserve
the rule of
law and
respect
fundamental
rights.
The
Secretary-General
reaffirms that
the United
Nations,
through his
Special
Representative
in Mali, will
continue to
accompany
Malians in
their efforts
to consolidate
peace,
democracy." Absolutely
bland and vague -
and unsigned,
unlike the
June 14 vacuous
statement
by
Stéphane
Dujarric,
Spokesman for
the
Secretary-General
New York, 14
June 2020."
Is Dujarric
gone for good?
He should be - once
you cover
up 100 child
rapes, withholding
information,
it's time to
go. To
jail.
Guterres and
Dujarric are criminals.
Watch this
site.
On
December
2 the
IMF which
Inner City
Press is
accredited to
cover, which
the UN denies
it, on
Mali
said
this: "A team
from the
International
Monetary Fund
(IMF), led by
Boriana
Yontcheva,
visited Bamako
during
November
19-29, 2019,
to hold
discussions on
the first
review of the
economic and
financial
program
supported by
the IMF under
the Extended
Credit
Facility...
The team met
with the Prime
Minister, Head
of Government,
Minister of
Economy and
Finance, Dr.
Boubou Cissé,
the Deputy
Minister in
Charge of
Budget, Mrs.
Aoua Sylla
Barry; the
National
Director of
the Central
Bank of West
African
States, Mr.
Konzo Traoré,
senior
officials, and
development
partners." We'll
have more on
this.
More
here.
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