| After Guterres
Stole UNSG Election Blocks Press
from Town Hall Chats Up Japan
& Greek
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Dec 27 –
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 4:
...Despite having
witnessed and asked with out
answer about Guterres' lack of
transparency in grabbing the
UNSG role, Inner City Press
tried to enter his tenure,
whether it would be five or
ten days, with an open mind.
On the way
to Guterres' UN lobby speech
about lost - that is, killed -
UN colleagues, Inner City
Press filmed the way that for
having pursued the Ng Lap Seng
UN bribery story into the UN
briefing room, it now had to
go through the metal detectors
again. There followed a
voiceover about the need for
reform, and that hope that
Guterres, however dubious his
(s)election, would do it.
Video still on X.
Guterres'
second and third photo ops
were with Japan's Deputy
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Shinsuke Sugiyama and Greek
Foreign Minister Nikos
Kotzias. Inner City Press
covered both, tweeting photos
and video now gone, and
reporting Guterres' small
talk, giving him a
chance.
But
when Guterres held his first
Town Hall meeting with UN
staff on January 9, 2017,
Inner City Press was banned
even from staking it out.
Afterward it received multiple
messages from staff members
decidedly unimpressed with
Guterres. "He's going to kill
this place," one of them said.
Presciently,
as it turned out.
More on this
UNgutted 4 on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
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