Epstein
Files Cost Lajcak Slovak Job
He Presided Over UNGA as
Guterres Banned Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Photos,
Periscope
UN GATE, Feb 2 –
After the release of the most
recent tranche - the last one?
- of the Epstein files, Miroslav
Lajcak has
lost his job
in Slovakia
for how he
shows up in
them.
Lajcak was
President of
the UN General
Assembly when
Inner City
Press was
roughed up by
UN Security
and
permanently
banned amid
its questions
about Epstein
and Ghislaine
Maxwell, on
whose Terramar
board UNSG
Antonio
Guterres had
one of only
five seats.
The
UN has yet to
be forced to
address any of
this; it
simply bans
the Press that
asks.
From
the archives:
Back on May 31,
2017 when the UN General
Assembly's new President
Miroslav Lajcak came to take
questions in from the GA Hall
on May 31, Inner City Press
asked him as the last question
about the then still undecided
first UN bribery case
involving former PGA John Ashe
and Macau based businessman Ng
Lap Seng, and whether he would
commit to disclose who pays
for his travel and his staff,
and try to codify this in a GA
resolution during his year. Video
here.
Lajcak claimed,
"There will be no secrets.”
On December 20, a
month after a second UN
bribery case, involving
inducements to another former
President of the General
Assembly Sam Kutesa for the
China Energy Fund Committee
became public, Inner City
Press asked Lajcak about
having canceled a November 21
appearance at a UN event
funded by CEFC. Lajcak
affirmed he had not attended
the event, said that he is
adopted the good practices of
his predecessors, not the bad
practices. Inner City Press
notes that it is up to
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres to initiate any UN
audit. He hasn't, and CEFC
China Energy, the beneficiary,
remains a member of the UN
Global Compact. We'll have
more on this.
Back on October
24, 2017 after having its
accreditation threatened
by the UN for pursuing real
accountability reporting at
the UN, Inner City Press asked
Lajcak's spokesman, as
summarized by his office: "The
Spokesperson was asked about a
contribution of $30,000 by
Georgia to the Trust Fund of
the President’s Office. The
reason for the contribution,
according to the Office’s web
site, was “to support funding
of the position of Consultant
for Legal Affairs." Asked if
the position had been filled
by a national from Georgia,
the Spokesperson replied in
the affirmative, noting that a
Georgian national had occupied
the position since the
beginning of the General
Assembly’s current session.
Asked how funding and outreach
to Member States worked with
respect to the hiring of staff
in the President’s Office, the
Spokesperson said that the
President engages in
fundraising, and Member States
are welcome to contribute to
the Trust Fund.
Guterres' links
to the CEFC China Energy have
yet to be explained - but
Inner City Press which asks
remains banned. It is lawless
censorship and must be
addressed.
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