UN GATE,
Dec 30 –
As inside the increasingly
marginal United Nations a
process begins to select a
successor to Antonio Guterres
who banned
Inner City
Press from the
UN as it
reported on
his links
with briber
CEFC China
Energy and to
sex trafficker
Ghislaine
Maxwell,
it is time to review the
history. Part 13:
Amid the
slaughter of Anglophones in
Cameroon, Antonio Guterres
stopped over in the country's
capital on October 27, 2017,
meeting with longtime
president Paul Biya and
purporting to "assess" the
Anglophone areas with out
leaving the
airport.
Inner City Press, which had
asked Guterres about Biya
cutting over the Internet to
the area - Guterres claimed
that he hadn't heard the
question - now asked UN
spokesman Farhan Haq about the
stop over, and comments by
Guterres' rep Francois Fall
that anyone suggesting
autonomy or independence was
an "extremist."
Inner City Press asked where
Guterres was going after this
Yaounde - Paris leg - Haq
wouldn't say. Inner City Press
asked, Lisbon? If so, who's
paying to take UN Security
there? Haq didn't answer,
saying that Guterres travels
with a small party. Inner City
Press asked how many people,
like the UN Photographer sent
before Guterres to CAR, travel
separately, to make the party
look smaller, or because
Guterres is anti-social? No
answer. No answer on
disciplining Renner Onana,
criticized in the UN's own
report on sexual abuse in CAR.
This despite claims of
accountability, transparency,
zero tolerance.
Increasingly
under Guterres, the UN had
zero credibility.
After
learning Guterres took a
golden statute from Biya
during the airport meeting,
Inner City Press questioned
Dujarric:
I noticed
that the Secretary-General met
with Ambassador Delattre and
some others about this
protection of
journalists. So, I
wanted to ask, I'll use
Cameroon as an example.
There are any number of
journalists sitting in jail
for reporting on the very
conflict that he discussed
with President Biya. Was
any issue of press freedom
raised?
Spokesman:
I will stick to the readout I
gave you in the meeting with
President Biya. Inner City
Press: No, no, I'm
saying…Spokesman: Thank
you."
The
referenced French Ambassador
Francois Delattre did a
fundraising with convicted sex
trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell,
along with a longtime member
of UNCA, the UN Censorship
Alliance.
More on this
UNgutted 13 - and on the UN's
shift in failure from Sri
Lanka to Cameroon - on X
for Subscribers here
and Substack here
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