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Western Sahara
UN Envoy Horst
Kohler Quits
As Guterres
Who Fails
Everywhere
Bemoans It
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Periscope, song,
II
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, May 22 – On
Western
Sahara, when
the UN
Security
Council's rare
meeting
began back on
21 March 2018,
Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres'
personal envoy
Horst Kohler walked
in with
security.
Asked if he
would speak
with the press
afterward, he
had one word:
"No." Now on
May 22, from
Guterres who
has virtually no
diplomatic successes
anywhere,
this: "The
Secretary-General
spoke to Mr.
Köhler today
who informed
him of his
decision to
step down from
his role for
health
reasons.
The
Secretary-General
deeply
regretted the
resignation
but said he
fully
understood the
decision and
extended his
best wishes to
the Personal
Envoy.
The
Secretary-General
expressed his
profound
gratitude to
Mr. Köhler for
his steadfast
and intensive
efforts which
laid the
foundation for
the new
momentum in
the political
process on the
question of
Western
Sahara.
The
Secretary-General
is also
grateful to
the parties
and the
neighboring
states for
their
engagement
with Mr.
Köhler in the
political
process." He
was
based in
Germany and was
allowed to
spend public
funds on his
own holdover
team, just
as Guterres
spends public
funds to go to
his home in
Portugal. Now
as Guterres'
retaliatory
ban
on Inner City
Press even
entering the
UN, now in its
300th
day and based
on a frivolous
Morocco
Mission
complaint,
the UN
Security
Council passed,
only 13-0-2, an
extension of
MINURSO's
mandate for
six months. Banned
Inner City
Press is
putting the
resolution
online here,
and notes that
under Guterres
the UN has yet
to solve
anything,
while making
most conflicts
worse. Before
the
December 19 UN
noon briefing
Inner
City Press in
writing asked
Guterres, his
Spokesman Stephane
Dujarric and
Global
Communicator
Alison Smale
who promised
answers, questions
including
this:
"December
19-3: On
Western
Sahara,
confirm SG
receipt of and
state his
response to
letter of
Polisario
urging him to
clear “mines
that threaten
the lives of
Saharwis” and
that on
Friday,
December the
14th, two
mines caused
the “death of
a Sahrawi man
and serious
injuries to
others”?
Dujarric
didn't read
out the
question the
way for
example even
the IMF does
with Inner
City Press'
questions; he
entertained
questions
from
pro-Morocco
scribes to
which he and
Guterres
and Smale give
UN office space
even if they
write no
articles. Today's UN
is corrupt.
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