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 14:
It
was bad enough that Guterres
essentially stole the 2016 SG
election, refusing to disclose
who funded him and what deals
were made. What kind of
second-in-comment does an
unaccountable leader
chose?
By November 2017 Inner City
Press was asking about
Guterres' Deputy SG Amina J.
Mohammed, embroiled in a
scandal about having signed
off - all night long - on the
export to China of illegally
harvested rosewood, including
some "smuggled from
Cameroon."
On
November 14, 2017 for the
second day in a row, Inner
City Press asked UN Spokesman
Stephane Dujarric about what
Amina Mohammed knew, and when,
and he again refused to
answer. A group launched a
petition to get Guterres to
investigate Mohammed. Inner
City Press asked Dujarric
about it. He said the UN
received petitions all the
time.
Once
when Sri Lankan Tamil tried to
get a petition into the UN,
they gave it to Inner City
Press. The UN's response was
that if Inner City Press
reported on it, the petition
was be thrown in the garbage.
It probably was, anyway. For
its troubles, Inner City Press
was characterized by some high
in UNCA, the UN Censorship
Alliance, as a "white tiger" -
that is, a
terrorist.
When
Inner City Press started
getting threats including
death threats from some in Sri
Lanka, UNCA disclaimed any
responsibility. They did the
Secretary General's work, then
faded into the
background.
More on this
UNgutted 14 - and on exclusive
about Turkey's dust-up with UN
Security, and renewed threats
of expulsion - on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
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