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 16:
Guterres
had made deal to get or steal
the SG job. But even now in 11
months, he made more deals,
the pay-back to him never
disclosed.
In late
November 2017, Inner City
Press asked about Germany's
Ambassador to the UN
Christoph Heusgen writing to
Guterres' chief of staff Maria
Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, citing
Germany's financial
contributions to get a UN job
for his wife: Ina Heusgen now
with a Focal Point for
Security post in UN
Peacekeeping under Jean-Pierre
Lacroix.
Deputy
spokesman Farhan Haq insisted
that jobs are given out on
merit, but refused to answer
when Inner City Press asked
for a description of how this
job was given out, and which
prospects who worked their way
up through the ranks were
passed over. It was
these rank-and-file UN staff
who would continue to send
Inner City Press stories, long
after Guterres had thrown it
out.
As
Guterres first full year in
office - and Inner City Press
last full year allowed in the
UN - wound down, on December 8
he held a by-invitation-only
session with some media from
Japan, to which he was headed
for a relatively obscure
health conference. Guterres
had no news; it was only about
the money, as he proved on
November 21 when his UN used
$1 million from China Energy
Fund Committee even after the
indictment for bribery of
CEFC's Patrick Ho.
But
Guterres was counting on the
sycophants who would "honor"
him on December 15, 2017 on
Wall Street, charging $1200 a
table to see him. Inner City
Press wrote, We'll have more
on this. It would the last
"UNCA ball" for which it still
had access to the UN.
More on this
UNgutted 16 - and UN
Censorship Alliance Kangeroo
court triggering death threats
from Sri Lanka - on
Substack here
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