On
Chagos US Praises UK Deal
Inner City Press Asked
Colonial Guterres Still No
Answer
By Matthew
Russell Lee, New
Platform
UN Gate, Oct 3 –
In the UN, even as restricted
by colonial Portuguese censor
UNSG Antonio Guterres, most
decolonization fights are in
the Fourth Committee or C-24.
On 22 May 2019 before the UN
General Assembly voted against
UK colonialism over Chagos
Islands, 116-6-56, Inner City
Press in writing asked "on
colonialism
and the P5,
please
immediately
state the SG's
position on
calls for the
UK to
relinquish
control over
the Chagos
Islands."
Guterres and
his spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric did
not answer, then or
since.
Now on
October 3,
2024, from
Tony Blinken,
this: the US "welcomes
today’s
historic
agreement... the
United Kingdom
will agree
that Mauritius
is sovereign
over the
Chagos
Archipelago,
including
Diego Garcia,
site of a
joint U.S.-UK
military
facility. In
turn, the UK
will exercise
the sovereign
rights and
authorities of
Mauritius with
respect to
Diego Garcia
in accordance
with the terms
of the
agreement.
This agreement
will secure
the
operational
future of the
joint U.S.-UK
military
facility on
Diego Garcia
into the next
century." Yeah.
Later after
the 2019 vote
the UK's
then-UN now DC
Ambassador
Karen Pierce
used or abused
the UNSC
stakeout to
speak in favor
of
colonialism.
Could the
proponents of
the GA
resolution
speak there?
Or this just
more abuse,
like the UK Mission
refusing to
answer Press
questions
about
Cameroon, here.
Now still
banned from any entry of the
UN by Guterres who tries to
conceal his financial links to
P5 powers like China and its
CEFC China Energy, through
Gulbenkian Foundation whose
payments to Guterres went
undisclosed in his form
covering 2016 (and has other
undisclosed colonial
business interests through his
son Pedro Guimarães e Melo De
Oliveira Guterres in Lusophone
Africa and Timor, Inner City
Press has asked in writing -
without response.
Back on 19 June
2017, a photo exhibit is in
the UN Secretariat Lobby
(along with a sign that this
is not an endorsement by the
UN). Tweeted photo here.
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