| As
Covid Reaches Yemen On South UNSC Whispers
While UN Covers Up Lax Policy in South
Sudan
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NY
Post List
UN GATE, April 29
– UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres on 27
March 2018
lavished
praise on
Saudi Crown
Prince
Mohammed bin
Salman now accused
with respect to
Jamal Khashoggi,
accepting
a $930 million
check from the
Saudis and UAE,
with not a
word of the
Saudi led
bombing
campaign that
has killed
civilians and
caused cholera
in Yemen.
While his team
still has MOU(s) with
MBS, Guterres
conceals
others
of his
financial
links.
Now alongside
the first
COVID-19
case confirmed
in Yemen, Guterres
is refusing to
answer about
lax social
distancing
practices at
his mission in
South Sudan,
and now a
petition,
and even use by
UN Security
of its gym,
three people
at a time, contrary
to New
York law,
Inner City Press
scoops here.
His UN
Secretariat is
corrupt; the members
of the UN
Security
Council have
done nothing
about
Guterres'
censorship of
Press. On April
29 on Yemen
the Security Council
issued a Press
Statement, which
we publish in
full while
still banned:
"The Members
of the
Security
Council
expressed
their strong
concern at the
25 April
declaration of
the Southern
Transitional
Council (STC).
They
reaffirmed
their strong
commitment to
Yemen’s unity,
sovereignty,
independence
and
territorial
integrity, and
called for
expediting
implementation
of the Riyadh
Agreement.
They expressed
concern that
the STC
actions could
distract from
the efforts of
Special Envoy
Martin
Griffiths to
secure a
nationwide
ceasefire,
confidence
building
measures, and
the restart of
a Yemeni-led
and owned
inclusive
political
process. They
urged the
Government of
Yemen and the
Houthis to
reinforce
their
engagement
with a view to
reaching
agreement on
the Special
Envoy’s
proposals as
soon as
possible.
They welcomed
the
announcement
of the
‘Coalition to
Support
Legitimacy in
Yemen’ of its
extension of
the unilateral
ceasefire in
support of the
UN peace
process and
urged the
Houthis to
join the
Government of
Yemen in
reciprocating
immediately,
in order to
stop ongoing
hostilities
and counter
the outbreak
of COVID-19." But what
about the UN
Secretariat's
outrageous
lack of social
distancing in
South Sudan (UNMISS)
and hypocritical
keeping open
of gym in New
York, and banning of
and refusal to
answer the
Press? What is
the Security
Council, and
each of its 15
members, doing
about that?
Watch this
site.
On
September
12,
from the UN of
Antonio "Back
Door"
Guterres who
fled into a
side door to
his public
mansion to
avoid questions after
a luxury boat
cruise
on September
7,
this: "The
Secretary-General
today
announced the
appointment of
Lieutenant
General
(retired)
Abhijit Guha
of India as
the Chair of
the
Redeployment
Coordination
Committee
(RCC) and Head
of the United
Nations
Mission in
support of the
Hudaydah
Agreement
(UNMHA)
pursuant to
Security
Council
resolutions
2452 (2019)
and 2481
(2019).
Lieutenant
General
(retired) Guha
succeeds
Lieutenant
General
Michael
Lollesgaard,
who served as
RCC Chair and
Head of UNMHA
from 31
January to 31
July 2019."
On
September 1, with
Guterres still
silent and
partnering with MBS through
his Youth
Envoy and
craven UN
Correspondents
Association, here,
more
than 100
people have
reportedly
been killed in
an air strike
by the
Saudi-led
military
coalition on a
detention center
in Yemen, the
International
Committee of
the Red Cross
said Sunday.
The ICRC
rushed to the
scene in the
city of Dhamar
with medical
teams and
hundreds of
body bags.
"The location
that was hit
has been
visited by
ICRC before,"
Rauchenstein
said. We'll
have more on
this - and
this:
Past 4 pm on
Friday, August
30 the UN
issued a
denial of
accreditation
with no
reasoning
other than
that
accreditation
had previously
been revoked:
"From:
malu
<malu@un.org>
Date: Fri, Aug
30, 2019 at
4:23 PM
Subject: U.N.
eAccreditation
request for
Matthew Lee
Ref # M5413398
has been
declined
To: Inner City
Press:
Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City
Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018."
This is
Kafka-esque,
and corrupt.
We will have
more, much
more, on this.
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