| Guterres Praised
Russian as Joked on Ukraine
Doling Jobs to UN Nepo Baby
Still in China
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Dec 28 –
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 7:
A month into
Antonio Guterres' sinecure
atop the UN, Inner City Press
asked him to confirm he was
creating a new job for
Canadian judge Louise Arbour,
as a Special Representative on
Migration."
Guterres
demurred, saying he would have
to take it to the UN's
"Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary
Questions," a body few media
other than Inner City Press
even covered.
In
pursuing the question while
Guterres was on his first
junket, Inner City Press asked
then-as-now deputy spokesman
Farhan Haq about it (without
answer) and about Guterres'
predecessor Ban Ki-moon then
visiting and speechifying in
Kenya, where Ban had installed
his son-in-law as Resident
Coordinator (he would soon be
moved to the UN's more
lucrative post in China, which
he still holds heading into
2026).
Haq said,
"Get over it," that he didn't
have to answer about Ban now
that he was a private citizen,
nor apparently about Ban's
son-in-law, still getting back
by global taxpayers. Soon Haq
would triumphantly limp on his
walking stick through a UN
briefing room sans Inner City
Press, blessed by Guterres
more absolute rule of
censorship.
Upon his return from his first
of many fruitless and murky
junkets, Guterres tried to
have it both ways. He
expressed lavish condolences
on the death of Russian
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin,
then joked with Ukraine's
Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin
that having two UN flags and
none from Ukraine was "UN
chauvinism." Klimkin replied,
"It's the kind of chauvinism
we can tolerate.
Otherwise..."
Guterres' deal
with Russia to get the UNSG
job would soon be bearing
fruit for them - the proof of
the pudding being that Russia
did not exercise its veto over
a second term for their boy
Guterres, as Clinton has done
against Boutros Boutros Ghali.
By their
vetoes shall ye know them.
More on this
UNgutted 7 - and the UN press
corpse - on X for Subscribers
here
and Substack here
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