UNITED
NATIONS GATE, April 17
– How corrupt
and hypocritical
is the
United Nations of
Secretary General
Antonio Guterres?
So much
so that while
Guterres claims zero
tolerance and
to be a
feminist, now he was
rewarded
and covered up
sexual
misconduct in
his own office.
In
a musical chairs
personnel move
on April
18, the day
after he continued
his 287 day
censorship
of the Press,
Guterres named
as his new
Assistant
Secretary-General
for Strategic
Coordination
one Volker
Türk, who
when Inner
City Press
asked him
about refugees
chased by Paul
Biya's
Cameroon army
into Nigeria
seemed not to
know about it.
Guterres, as we have
reported, not
only took a
golden statue
from Biya, but
went
silent on the
killings since Cameroon
was
chair of the
UN Budget
Committee. But
it's worse:
Turk is
taking the position
from Fabrizio
Hochschild
Drummond of
Chile "who was
appointed as
Special
Adviser of the
Secretary-General
on the
Preparations
for the
Commemoration
of the United
Nations’ 75th
Anniversary."
This promotion
is,
ghoulishly,
Guterres rewarding
what multiple
staff say was
Hochschild's
relationship
with another
junior staff
member. One of
the staff
members tells
Inner City
Press it in these words: "his
promotion to
USG was
because the SG
wanted him out
of his office
after he was
caught having
an affair with
a junior staff
member. In
terms of power
play this is a
reward for
sexual
harassment."
Talk about MeToo -
the faux
feminist
Guterres covers up
and rewards
such behavior.
And later on
April 18 Ms.
Nahla Valji,
Senior Gender
Adviser,
Executive
Office of the
Secretary-General, was bragging
about Guterres
and feminism. What
hypocrisy.
We'll have
more on this -
while Guterres
and his
spokespeople refuse
to answer any
of Inner City
Press' written
questions, we
still have
sources, many
sources.
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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