| Amid
Aid Blockades
UN Guterres
Canned
Statements Are
All Skau
Offers Lachin
as Niger
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, Aug 8 –
Today's United Nation has
become a self-important
bystander to carnage,
convinced that its own canned
statements are having some
impact. They are not.
On August 7, the UN's
so-called Resident Coordinator
in or to Armenia Nanna Skau
when asked what steps the UN
was taking in the face of a
blockade of the Lachin
corridor mere read out a
canned statement by Secretary
General Antonio Guterres,
which itself had been read out
by his spokesman Farhan Haq
who refused Press questions.
It was reported
that in Kornidzor village by
Nagorno-Karabakh "to the
remark that since June 15, no
humanitarian cargo, including
medicine, has entered
Nagorno-Karabakh, and asked
whether there were any other
effective steps that will make
it possible to send
humanitarian cargo to
Nagorno-Karabakh, Skau
responded that unfortunately,
at the moment, she cannot say
more than the aforesaid
statement that was issued last
night and was made public
today at 5am. She added that
they expect this statement to
lead to positive results."
Why?
Meanwhile,
Guterres named "Dr. Ramiz
Alakbarov of Azerbaijan as the
UN Resident Coordinator in
Ethiopia, with the host
government’s approval." This
guy has appeared beside Haq,
in briefing from which
Guterres bans the Press. This
is today's UN.
Amid the
coup in Niger, the UN Resident
Coordinator Louise Aubin has
been out of the country,
location undisclosed.
On July 27,
Inner City Press in writing
asked SG Antonio Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric to
immediately state where this
UN official is. Dujarric, who
along with Melissa Fleming has
banned Inner City Press from
entering to ask, did not
answer. Nor did Aubin.
This
echoes other Guterres cronies
going MIA - Inger Anderson,
for example, as head of UNEP
left Nairobi during the COVID
pandemic.
Inner City Press
has applied to re-enter to
cover the upcoming UNGA Week,
watch this site.
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