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By Matthew Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP

UN GATE, Jan 4 – How corrupt is UNSG Guterres and his team, which have kepted investigative Inner City Press banned from any entry of the UN for 549 days? Well, Guterres' close staffer Aguinaldo Baptista has in recent days praised corrupt Angolan billionaire Isabel Dos Santos, photo here.

  Inner City Press would have asked if this was perhaps ironic - except it is banned from entering, and Guterres' spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming won't even answer written questions, which Baptista knows but has done nothing about. And so he tweets, like Guterres robo tweets, and Fleming virtue signals. These people are involved in ongoing censorship. We will not cease reporting on this, from the UN gate.

  Cameroon's 38 year ruler Paul Biya, propped up by France and now for three years by corrupt UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres who cut a deal with Biya for his support as chair of the UN Budget Committee, on New Years Eve made threats to kill more people.

  And from Guterres, who has been missing from New York for three weeks, similar to Biya's long convalescences in Geneva? Nothing. Absolute silent. And no answers by his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming, who continue Guterres' ghoulish ban on Inner City Press even entering the UN to ask questions.

  This was from Biya's speech, robo tweeted out by others just like Guterres' saccarine feed, on Biya's Twitter account from which Biya's like any dictator bans Inner City Press and others. Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric also blocks Inner City Press, despite having promised on camera to answer its questions. Both will fall in 2020. But for the UN to be run by a corrupt censor? This is a new low. It is UNacceptable.

On September 29 Inner City Press was sent another tweet about Biya's platform for national dialogue, an account featuring a photos of the grip and grin between Guterres and Biya's foreign minister. This is the result of Guterres' sold out diplomacy - a Potemkin Village of fake dialogue accompanied by violence and censorship. Guterres is no better than Biya. At least Biya is officially senile. What is Guterres' excuse?

  More here.

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