| UN Vienna
Agencies Bar Press From Q&A On This
Use of Public Funds, Corrupt Like Guterres
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Feb 2 –
How corrupt has the United
Nations Organization become
under Antonio Guterres? Well,
after Inner City Press asked
Guterres why he concealed his
financial links to convicted
UN briber CEFC China Energy,
he banned Inner City Press.
Now, that
ban has extended across the
Atlantic to the UN in Vienna.
UNOV advertised a press event
about the 2022 agendas of the
UN agencies there, and saying
to RSVP. Inner City Press did,
to press.vienna [at] un.org,
anne.thomas [at] un.org and
Ban Ki-moon's former
spokesperson martin.nesirky
[at] un.org: " Hello. Inner
City Press closely reports on
UN affairs, System-wide. This
is a request to attend and ask
questions at the February 3
press conference about UNOV's
and the agencies' work."
Now, from Anne
Thomas, this: "Dear Mr. Lee:
UNIS Vienna is not able to
provide access for you to this
briefing." Photo here.
Not able? This is
corruption. They use public
money, and conceal corruption.
These are the agencies:
"United Nations Office for
Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA),
United Nations Commission on
International Trade Law
(UNCITRAL), the Office of the
United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), the United Nations
Scientific Committee on the
Effects of Atomic Radiation
(UNSCEAR), the Office for
Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
Vienna Office, the
International Narcotics
Control Board (INCB), the
International Organization for
Migration (IOM), the
International Commission for
the Protection of the Danube
River (ICPDR), the United
Nations Postal Administration
(UNPA) and the Secretariat of
the Carpathian Convention - UN
Environment Vienna."
The speakers,
complicit: "Martin Nesirky
Director, United Nations
Information Service (UNIS)
Vienna Speakers include:
Kai Bethke Director of
External Relations, United
Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO) Fredrik
Dahl Spokesperson,
International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) Brian Hansford
Chief, Advocacy Section,
United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime (UNODC) Gill Tudor
Chief of Public Information,
Preparatory Commission for the
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban
Treaty Organization (CTBTO)."
We'll have more on this.
Each day, the current United
Nations gets worse. Usually we
focus on Secretary General
Antonio Guterres moving from
concealing his links to UN
briber CEFC China Energy to
banning the Press that asks,
to failures on Sri Lanka,
Cameroon, Haiti, Honduras
(JOH) & Nigeria (Nnamdi
& Igboho).
But today
the UN loses a journalist of
integrity, Apostolis
Zoupaniotis,
retiring to
return to
Greece. Even
after the UN
in retaliation
threw Inner
City Press out
of its UN
office, Apostolis
offered the
use of his
cubicle.
By contrast
the insiders
of the UN
Correspondents
Association,
while
purporting to
praise this
journalist
among with UN
Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric on
three week
vacation in
Greece, have
neither
responded to
or offered any
explanation
when a
lawyer's
letter - to
each UNCA
Executive
Committee
member - urged
them to have a
dialogue about
ending the
UN's banning
and censorship
of Inner City
Press.
The
letter was
received by
the UN's
Melissa
Fleming, Maria
Luiza Vioti
and Tal Mekel
and to each
UNCA Executive
Board member,
to them citing
UNCA's stated
goals that it
has a charter
to supposedly
uphold.
What's
next? Since
the letter,
Inner City
Press has
published
exclusive
stories not
only from the
U.S. court
systems but
about the
United
Nations,
including its
agencies UNOPS,
UNFPA,
UNITAR
and UNESCO.
(Also credited
in AP,
Daily
Mail, and
Nigeria's
Sahara
Reporters,
amid answers
from the IMF.)
But
none of its
written
questions have
been answered
by the UN
Spokespeople,
and it remains
banned from
entry to the
UN's
briefings.
This must
end.
Having
asked for a
colleagial
discussion,
and while
still offering
it, things
must turn to
the law. UNCA
is a New York
State
non-profit
which has not
only not
abided by its
stated goals -
it has
tortiously
interfered
with a
journalist's
right to cover
the United
Nations.
The United
Nations itself
propounds
Article 19 of
the Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights,
and has other
legal duties
that must be
addressed by
national
courts,
particularly
in the UN's
host
country...
Those
in receipt of
the first,
friendly
letter:
melissa.fleming@un.org,
marialuiza.viotti@un.org,
mekel@un.org,
malu@un.org,
and
UNCA
Valeria
Robecco, ANSA
News Agency,
Nabil Abi
Saab,
Al-Araby,
Jianguo Ma,
Xinhua News
Agency, Edith
Lederer,
Associated,
Giampaolo
Pioli,
Quotidiano,
Linda Fasulo,
Ibtisam Azem,
Al-Araby
Al-Jadeed
Newspaper, Ali
Barada, France
24, Asharq
Al-Awsat;
Oscar Bolanos,
OMB News,
Sherwin
Bryce-Pease,
SABC South
Africa -
Alexander
Hassanein, The
Tokyo Shimbun,
Maria
Khrenova,
TASS, Philippe
Rater, Agence
France-Presse,
Kaori Yoshida,
Nikkei, Betul
Yuruk, Anadolu
Agency at
president@unca.com,
valeria.robecco@gmail.com,
nabisaab@gmail.com,
mjg222888@gmail.com,
elederer@ap.org,
giampioli@aol.com,
lindafasulo@gmail.com,
ibtisam.azem@alaraby.co.uk,
abarada@hotmail.com,
ombyvozque@gmail.com,
s.brycepease@gmail.com,
alexander@tokyoshimbun.us,
khrenova_m@tass.ru,
philippe.rater@afp.com,
kaori.yoshida@nex.nikkei.com,
byuruk@aa.com.tr
We'll have
more on this.
Watch this
site.
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