| Gaza Resolution Fails in
UNSC Thomas Greenfield Out UN
Guterres Monetizes Art 99
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Dec 8 –
UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres bragged about
invoking "Article 99" on
December 6 about Gaza, while
banning Inner City Press which
has asked about his failures
there and in Ukraine, Ethiopia
and Cameroon.
Immediately,
Guterres worked to monetize
the move. According to an
official Saudi Arabia
read-out, Guterres called
their foreign minister to brag
about the "speech" (it was a
letter) invoking Article 99.
The Saudi
readout says they
congratulated him -
"appreciation and great
support" - like the time MBS
gave a huge check to stay
quiet about his bombing of
Yemen. This is not diplomacy:
this is sale of office.
But the
Gaza resolution - with no
mention of Hamas in it -
failed on October 9, with US
Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield not present
but veto cast, and UK
abstaining. Gabon then said
passage would have meant a
ceasefire. Really? US
"actions" are meaningless;
Guterres cannot even let the
Press in. Totally corrupt.
In the UN,
predictably the choir - the
correspondents Guterres lets
in and for whom he is set to
raise funds on December 15 in
a ghoulish Casa Cipriani gala
- sung his praises.
But
consider: the Nazi UN
Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim also grandly invoked
Article 99 during his tenure.
And why didn't
Guterres do so, if body count
is his standard, in conflicts
with higher casualties? His
standard is finger in the
wind, keeping living in the
Sutton Place mansion, banning
Inner City Press that asks.
His spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming do not answer written
questions on this; Fleming has
refused to answer two pro bono
law firm letters about ending
censorship. Today's UN is
corrupt
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