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Abdulla Shahid As 5 Days in Family Run
Gabon Censored Himself on Genocide
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, August
14 –
After UN President of the
General Assembly John Ashe was
indicted for taking bribes
from Chinese government
businessman Ng Lap Seng, and
died before trial, the UN's
lone reform was to say that
future PGAs would disclose how
each of their their staff
members were funded, and by
whom.
And now, even
that insufficient reform is
not being complied with. As of
October 31, under staff,
rather than lists who pays
whom, Shahid says "Information
on the staff of the Office of
the President The staff of the
Office of the President of the
General Assembly (OPGA) are
identifiable through their
biographies on the website."
This makes a mockery of
transparency, and violates the
post-Ashe commitment. And the
Press that asks about ongoing
UN corruption is
banned.
In July 2022
Abdulla Shahid while he and
his spokesperson still refuse
to answer Press questions and
are complicit in banning it
from entering the UN to ask
censored himself. Yes: he
deleted his own tweet about
visiting the Tsitsernakaberd
Armenian Genocide Memorial
Complex.
You see, the UN
can't use the G-word, not
about Sri Lanka and Cameroon
where it has been and still is
complicit, nor here.
Presidency of Hope? Hardly.
Shahid's spokesperson Paulina
Kubiak Greer, who has
steadfastly refused to answer
any written Press questions,
was typically like her
apparently mentor Stephane
"The Censor" Dujarric... next
up is Gabon:
"Libreville, 14
August 2022 – The President of
the UN General Assembly, H.E.
Mr Abdulla Shahid, will
undertake an official visit to
Gabon, arriving on 14 August
and departing on 19 August, to
highlight the importance of
conservation in the Congo
Basin as critical for the
environment and for the
people.
President Shahid’s visit,
which comes at the invitation
of the Government, will
coincide with Gabon’s National
Day celebrations, which marks
its independence and usually
consists of festivities and a
parade.
During the visit, Mr. Shahid
will pay a call on Gabon’s
President, Mr. Ali Bongo
Ondimba."
As Inner
City Press previously
reported, "Ali Bongo is
preparing the next generation,
with Guterres' collusion: The
eldest son of Gabonese
president Ali Bongo Ondimba,
Noureddin Bongo Valentin, has
been handed a political
appointment at the presidency
according to reports. He
was appointed “coordinator of
presidential affairs” on
Thursday with the main mandate
'to assist the President of
the Republic in the conduct of
all affairs of the State.'"
Presidency of Hope, indeed -
hope for nepotism and
censorship.
Shahid's is
not a
"Presidency of
Hope" - it is
a presidency
of corruption,
or at least,
of censorship.
Back on September
16, 2021 Inner City Press
wrote to then-new PGA Abdulla
Shahid's then-spokesperson
Monica Grayley, "state when
you will put on the PGA
website the financial and
staffing information committed
to after the indictment of
then PGA John Ashe."
It asked for
confirmation of receipt, and a
copy of the list of speakers
for the UNGA High Level Week.
Neither was provided, nor any
response on what Shahid,
Maldives' foreign minister,
will do to ensure access to
"his" UNGA by the Press which
asks these questions.
Instead, with the
Press still banned, Shahid on
October 31 in Glasgow
pontificated: "We must be
honest about this, with
ourselves, with each other,
and with the rest of the
world." Honest?
How can the
Press be banned? Corrupt
There is a
pending application to the UN
Media Accreditation and
Liaison Unit, acknowledged
(unlike PGA Shahid's Grayley)
but not acted on.
On September 17,
with the "Team" section of PGA
Shahid's website still empty,
Inner City Press wrote to two
other staffers in the PGA's
office, Carl Mercer
Lead, Communications, Advocacy
& Speechwriting and Ahmed
Salman Zaki, Executive
Assistant to the PGA. Also
complicity in the censorship
of Press: Carl
Mercer Lead,
Communications, Advocacy &
Speechwriting. At the UN,
there are other more accurate
words to describe these
functions. Watch this site.
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