UNITED
NATIONS GATE, April 27
– How corrupt
and hypocritical
is the
United Nations of
Secretary General
Antonio Guterres?
So much
so that after
cultivating
a press
corps including
no-show sycophants
while banning the
Press which
asks questions,
now his UN on
April 26 has
said the
sycophants
have to swipe
in. They don't have
to produce any
articles or, God
forbid,
questions UN
corruption.
(On which,
April
25 Inner
City Press interview, from
44:40.)
But Guterres' team has
sent this,
on which Inner
City
Press banned
now 297 days
for
questioning
Guterres'
corruption on
China and
failure on
Cameroon will
be following
up: "From: Tal
Mekel, mekel [at] un.org Date:
Fri, Apr 26,
2019 at 2:10
PM Subject:
Note on
attendance
To:
Dear resident
correspondents,
As you know,
MALU is
responsible
for ensuring
the offices
assigned to
media outlets
are being used
in accordance
with the
requirements
and agreements
(on average
2-3 times a
week).
To that end,
we have long
been
monitoring by
visiting the
offices at
various times
of day.
Due to the
unpopularity
of these
check-ins, we
plan to
implement a
less intrusive
system, which
we believe
will be better
for all
parties.
In the next
few weeks, we
will place
several card
readers for
use of
resident
correspondents
on the 3rd and
4th floors,
and in the
MALU
office.
These readers
are completely
separate from
the security
access system.
However, we
will still be
able to use
the UN ID to
swipe, for
your
convenience.
Your IDs will
need to be
registered by
MALU once a
year, upon
renewal of the
pass. We
don’t expect
correspondents
to swipe every
time you
arrive or
leave UNHQ –
swiping once
during the day
will suffice
to demonstrate
you were at
UNHQ.
The devices
will only
register basic
information
about time of
swipe, which
will only be
seen by
MALU.
The goal is
not to monitor
movements, but
just to help
verify over a
period of time
that
journalists
with offices,
or are on the
wait-list, are
fulfilling
their
obligations.
This will help
us allocate
office space
equitably.
We will update
you in the
coming days to
register the
IDs. Thank you
for your
understanding
and
cooperation.
Have a nice
weekend,
Tal
Tal
Mekel
Chief, Media
Accreditation
and Liaison
Unit
Department of
Global
Communications
United
Nations
Room S-250."
Inner
City Press is
informed that, for
once, there is
push back. A Saudi
funded
journalist who
brags about
never having
to go to the
UN is up in
arms. Then
there's the
former UN
Correspondents
Association
(1986)
president and
Egyptian state
correspondent,
Sanaa Youssef
of Akbar al
Youm to whom
the UN gave
Inner City
Press' shared
work space
but who has
yet to ask a
single question.
And
another
former
UNCA president
Giampaoli
Pioli, who
promised to
get Inner City
Press
thrown out of
the UN for its
accurate
reporting on
his conflict
of interest in
renting one of
his Manhattan
apartments to
Sri Lanka's
Ambassador and
alleged war criminal
(in the
white flag
killings case)
Palitha
Kohona then
giving a "UN screening" to
his propaganda
film, rarely
comes in. We'll have more
- will the UN,
which claimed
it threw Inner
City Press out
for daring to
report on the
UN Budget
Committee
when it
actually met,
at 10 pm,
follow through
on this? Watch
this site.
In the
midst of Inner
City Press'
questioning
in 2018 about
Guterres' links to
now convicted UN
bribery Patrick
Ho's China Energy
Fund Committee and
Guterres' failures
on Cameroon
and elsewhere, his
UN Security twice
roughed up Inner
City Press on June 22 and July
3, 2018.
Then
after Inner City
Press filed a New
York Police
Department
complaint against
the UN and its
Lieutenant Ronald
E. Dobbins, none
of its written
questions to UN
Security chief
Peter Drennen
and Guterres
were answered.
There are no
due process
rights for
journalists in
the UN of
Guterres. On
April 15, a year
minus a day
since the UN
accredited
Inner City
Press on 16
April 2018, Inner
City Press
submitted a
formal
application
and letter
for
re-accreditation,
including in
light of the
guilty verdict
and
sentencing
against
Patrick Ho of
CEFC (video
here),
financial
links to which
Guterres has
failed to disclose and has for
287
days sought to
censor to conceal.
On the
morning of April
17, without
any reasoning
or
explanation,
this:
"Greetings
Matthew LEE
from
ICP
INNER CITY
PRESS,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M66561081, has
been
declined."
Just as there
was no
hearing, no action
on assault by
UN DSS
Lieutenant
Ronald E.
Dobbins, and
not appeals
process, no reasons.
Absolute
lawless
corruption.
The
letter was sent to
Guterres, his
USG Alison
Smale and
her
"personal assistant"
Alison Corbet, his
chief of staff
Maria Luiza
Viotti and
her staffer
Eihab Omaish,
his
Deputy SG
Amina J. Mohammed
and her chief
of
staff Nelson
Muffuh, as well
as to PGA
Maria Fernanda
Espinosa
Garces, her
chief of
staff Kwabena Oseidanquah,
her
spokesperson
Monica Grayley and
staffers Nadia
Kalb and
Raquel
Martins, to MALU
chief Tal
Mekel and
others still to
be named
along with a simple
request for confirmation
of receipt.
Even this they had not
done, a full 38
hours later. From
what's been
submitted: "A
year ago on 16
April 2018 I
was
re-accredited
to enter and
cover the
United
Nations, as
for many years
before. Then I
asked more and
more questions
about the
Patrick Ho /
CEFC China
Energy UN
bribery
scandal, about
the Secretary
General, about
Cameroon - and
on 22 June
2018 I was
pushed out of
the UN
Visitors Lobby
while other
non-resident
correspondents
remained
there.
On 3 July 2018
as I covered
the UN Budget
Committee
meetings as I
have for
years, I was
physically
roughed up by
UN DSS Lt
Ronald Dobbins
and another
who refused to
give his name.
On July 5 I
was told I
could not
enter the UN
and this
remains the
case, with no
hearing and no
appeal.
Now just less
than a year
since I was
accredited,
before the
above and
other facts of
record, I am
submitting
this formal
application
for
accreditation
which you
grant to
correspondents
who report far
less, and far
less
critically, on
the UN than
Inner City
Press.
It is
particularly
imperative
that Inner
City Press be
allowed to
enter and
attend the
noon briefing
as hundreds of
my questions
have gone
unanswered
despite USG
Smale's assurance
to UNSR David
Kaye, and
Spokesman
Dujarric's on
camera
assurance.
Beyond
the hundreds
of articles
covering the
UN since the
arbitrary
ouster of 3
July 2018, for
the
record:
March 29,
2019, Hong
Kong TV documentary
on Patrick Ho
CEFC, Inner
City Press in
front of UN
and SDNY...
For years Guterres
received money as a
board member of the
Calouste Galbenkian
Foundation, which
despite its name is
the 100% owner of
Partex Oil and Gas.
Partex
has operations in
Angola, Abu Dhabi,
Brazil, Kazakhstan,
the Netherlands,
Oman and Portugal.
It was to a
Portuguese court
that Guterres, while
justifying
no listing some of
his income,
disclosed in 2016
that he was paid at
least € 2735 per
month for his
position with the
Gulbenkian
Foundation.
But while a now
deleted Foundation
web page (archived here)
stated that Guterres
continued with
Gulbenkian into
2018, Guterres did
not list it on his most
recent, and so
far lone, UN Public
Financial
Disclosure, which
covered 2016
("Disclosing
financial and other
interests for the
2016 reporting
year").
So why did Guterres
disclose his
position with the
Club of Madrid, but
not
with the Gulbenkian
Foundation / Partex
Oil and Gas?
Inner City Press has
a right
to re-enter
and pursue these
questions.
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