| Guterres 1st Trip
After Stealing UNSG Election Had
Murky Entourage No Article 99 on
Burma
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 6:
Guterres' campaign talk
about human rights quickly
went by the wayside. In
February 2017 Inner City Press
asked if he'd invoke Article
99 to try to force action on
Myanmar or Burma. No, came the
answer.
[Transcript here,
see "Mr. Lee"]
China wouldn't
hear of it.
And China
is not the only Permanent-Five
member of the UN Security
Council that Guterres is
servicing. Inner City Press
reported that now "competing"
to replace Herve Ladsous, the
fourth Frenchman in a row atop
UN Peacekeeping, are
Jean-Maurice Ripert, Jean
Pierre Lacroix and likely
winner Sylvie Bermann, now
Ambassador in London, previous
like Ladsous in Beijing. It's
the French
Connection.
At a photo
op, after Ivorian minister
Amon-Tanoh's long visitors'
book signing, no works were
spoken until Guterres'
"merci." His spokesman
Stephane Dujarric has stopped
giving read-outs of such
meetings. His Office called
the end of day "lid" with no
reference to a balance, and
without answering Inner City
Press' question from noon
about Burundi.
And soon
Tony would hit the road, for
his first but far from his
last trip, starting February
9, 2017: "Later today the
Secretary-General will travel
to Istanbul, Turkey and then
to Saudi Arabia, the United
Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar and
Egypt, as the first part of
his visits to the
region...[After Germany] the
Secretary-General will be back
in the office on 21
February."
Who would be
traveling with Guterres?
Unlike other public - and
publicly funded - figures,
Guterres does not disclose it.
announced or disclosed. But
Inner City Press reported that
the entourage included Jeffrey
Feltman's "plant" Katrin Hett.
When Inner City Press asked
about her position, Dujarric
called the question
"despicable."
Inner City Press reported that
too, and this: When Saudi
Arabia's foreign minister, in
his first meeting with
Guterres in the last nine
days, effusively greeted
Feltman, it should have set
off alarms. But it didn't.
What was the role of the UAE,
along with Feltman, in telling
Guterres to appoint Salam
Fayyad to the Libya envoy post
previously occupied by
Bernardino Leon, bought by the
UAE?
Questions,
questions. It is reminiscent
of one of Ban Ki-moon's trips
to Egypt, when Mubarak asked
him why there were no Arabs in
the UN delegation. No, Ban
said, we have an Egyptian - as
a security guard. This story
long circulated among the Arab
heads of state the inept Ban
met with.
Inner City
Press concluded:
"We want Guterres to be
different - for the good of
the UN." But it was not to be.
Far from it.
More on this
UNgutted 6 - and a death in
the UN- on X for Subscribers here
and Substack here
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