| As UN
Guterres Fails on Ukraine & Orders All
UN Staff To Mimic Him Al Jazeera Sucks Up
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UN GATE, March 9,
Follow up to Exclusive –
With the UN failing on
Ukraine, with two resolution
rejected in the UN Security
Council now presided over by
the UAE which abstained on
both, and Secretary General
Antonio Guterres who only got
his two terms with the
approval of Vladimir Putin and
now sends as humanitarian
envoy to Ukraine a crony Amin
Awad who previously sold
out the Tamils in Sri
Lanka, now Guterres has moved
to censoring UN
staff.
Inner City Press,
banned from the UN by
Guterres, was exclusively
leaked and on March 4
published this, also from
March 4, photo here:
Fri 3/4/2022
To: ALL UN Secretariat;
Agencies, Funds and Programmes
Guidance to staff
on personal communications
about the situation in
Ukraine
The crisis in
Ukraine is deeply upsetting
and a matter of grave concern
to United Nations staff. The
Secretary-General has also
made the position of the
Organization regarding the
hostilities very
clear. While
it is understandable that many
of us feel compelled to share
views about the events that
are unfolding, including in
personal fora such as social
media, staff are reminded of
their rights and duties as
international civil servants,
which require us to act
independently and
impartially.
Please take a moment to
familiarize yourselves anew
with the policies on the
Status, basic rights and
duties of United Nations staff
members; outside activities;
and the guidelines for the
personal use of social media.
Attention is also drawn to the
“2022 Guidance on Political
Activities” recently issued on
iSeek by the UN Ethics
Office.
"Accordingly,
staff are asked to frame any
communications on Ukraine as
well as other political
matters in a manner that is
consistent with the position
of the Organization and the
statements of the
Secretary-General."
But
Guterres' Spokesperson
Stephane Dujarric refused all
questions about Ukraine from
Inner City Press. Guterres'
head of media accreditation
Melissa Fleming has refused to
even answer a letter
from pro bono law firm Quinn
Emanuel seeking a dialog on
the re-entry of Inner City
Press, which remained a
resident correspondent even
while critiquing Ban Ki-moon
for failure in Sri
Lanka.
On March
9, Dujarric, Fleming and
Guterres refused to answer
this written question: "
Confirm or deny that the email
obfuscated at the March 8 noon
briefing Inner City Press is
banned from, beyond the email
each of you were asked about
in writing on March 7, was by
UNRIC's Sherri Aldis, and if
not, by whom."
And yet,
with no answers, Dujarric
favorite, Qatar state media Al
Jazeera's "diplomatic editor"
James Bays, as simply one
example, later on March 9
snarked online that "this
story has been proved to be
untrue - over 24 hrs ago."
How?
Inner City
Press has asked:
"You say UN's orders to its
staff on what to say on
Ukraine has "proved to be
untrue" - what do you say to
your pal UN
Spokesperson Stephane
Dujarric refusing to
answer Inner City Press
written questions about this
leaked email?"
Journalism is not
a crime indeed. Bays / Al
Jazeera worked with Team
Guterres to get Inner City
Press roughed up and banned.
Inner City Press has raised
this to a number of Al
Jazeera-ites. For now, see
their appearance in CJR here.
We'll have more on this.
Guterres is a censor who
cannot even dialogue with his
own critics. He surrounds
himself with state media
yes-men. His UN is failing on
Ukraine, and Inner City Press
will continue to apply and
cover it. Watch this site.
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