| UN Says
Burkina Faso Has No Right to Oust Guterres
Rep Manzi But Guterres Can Ban Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
UNGATE, Dec 24 –
Today's United Nations asserts
it is above any country's law
or decisions.
How else to
interpret reclusive UN
Secretary General Antonio's
canned statement, after
Burkina Faso ordered his
representative to leave the
country, that only he can do
that?
It is more
than a little ironic, since
Guterres also claims for
himself the right to
physically oust and ban anyone
from the being or reporting
from inside the United
Nations, with no explanation
or appeal.
He did
that to Inner City Press on
July 3, 2018, and has
maintained the ban since,
refusing through his USG
Melissa Fleming to answer a
polite letter from pro bono
law firm Quinn Emanuel, and
more recently Inner City
Press' appeal directed, as
UNPGA Csaba Korosi's
spokesperson Paulina Kubiak
directed, to USG Gilles
Michaud of UN
Security.
Guterres'
own spokesman Stephane
Dujarric has refused all
written questions about it.
But Dujarric issued this:
"The
Secretary-General has learned
with regret that, on 23
December, the transitional
government of Burkina Faso
declared the Resident
Coordinator/Humanitarian
Coordinator of the United
Nations and Designated
Security Official in the
country, Ms. Barbara Manzi, as
persona non
grata.
The doctrine of persona non
grata does not apply to United
Nations officials. Under
Article 100 and 101 of the
United Nations Charter, United
Nations staff members are
appointed by the
Secretary-General, responsible
only to the Organization...
Only the Secretary-General, as
the Chief Administrative
Officer of the Organization,
has the authority to decide,
after careful investigation,
with respect to the withdrawal
of any United Nations
official."
What
arrogance. From an
organization that for example
killed 10,000 in Haiti by
bringing cholera, and whose SG
Guterres defend and covers up
for UN rapists from
peacekeepers to UN "aid(s)"
worker Karim Elkorany.
Inner City
Press' December 5 appeal
of being banned, sent just as
Korosi's spokesperson Paulina
Kubiak told it to, has not
even been acknowledged.
Today's UN is
totally corrupt. And Inner
City Press will stay on it,
insisting its appeal be
granted, and either way
reporting on the UN's
corruption. Watch this
site.
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