By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN
UN GATE / SDNY, Dec 21 – Each day, the current United Nations gets worse. We have questioned Secretary General Antonio Guterres moving from concealing his links to indicted pedophile procurer Ghislaine Maxwell and to UN briber CEFC China Energy to banning the Press that asks, also about failures on Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Haiti, Honduras (Narco President JOH) & Nigeria (Nnamdi and Igboho).
Inner City Press asked in the UN about UN rapes and Guterres' links to Ghislaine Maxwell, and about Jeffrey Epstein's UN fellowship. Not only wouldn't Guterres answer - he had Inner City Press roughed up and banned, now 1366 days.
Now in late December 2021, Guterres has blathered to UN staff which forwarded it to Inner City Press: "January marks the start of the New Year, and of my second term as Secretary-General. My central priorities for my second term will be to build and maintain momentum to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change; to support countries, particularly developing countries, to recover from the pandemic and achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; and to improve our management of critical global public goods, especially in the digital realm. My recent report on Our Common Agenda includes concrete recommendations for a more inclusive, networked multilateralism, fit for the twenty-first century. I look forward to working with you to promote and realize these goals, beyond conflict prevention and resolution. [The UN's two stated goals, on both of which Guterres has failed.] The COVID-19 pandemic will continue to affect our work for the foreseeable future. As we work for universal access to vaccines and treatments, and for an equitable recovery, we must also be prepared for further complications and difficulties. I have great faith in our resilience as an Organization, and could not wish for more dedicated colleagues during these troubled times. I hope that as travel reopens safely, I will be able to resume visits to our United Nations operations around the world in 2022." But Guterres throughout the pandemic has used public money to fly himself to Lisbon, along with publicly paid guards. And can you say, Lolita Express? #MaximumMaxwell.
The board members of the UN Correspondents Association, functioning it seems as Guterres' partner in banning Inner City Press, after dodging its questions about money they took from Chinese government briber Ng Lap Seng's South South News and an UNCA officer's financial link with an accused war criminal from Sri Lanka, have neither responded to or offered any explanation when a lawyer's letter from the Quinn Emanuel firm, on ongoing pro bono engagement- to each UNCA Executive Committee member - urged them to have a dialogue about ending the UN's banning and censorship of Inner City Press.
Now on December 8, amid the Ghislaine Maxwell trial in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Inner City Press cited in the Telegraph and Sun, and on radio) UNCA is raising money selling access to Guterres at Cipriani at 25 Broadway, in what some call the Pedophiles' Ball.
After a full day of covering the Maxwell trial, Inner City Press went there, to seek an answer from Guterres. Live stream from Foley Square here; 1 hour stream from outside the Pedophiles' Ball here.
Inner City Press greeted US Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, who knows about Guterres' ban of the Press but has done nothing, and commented on the entry of Saudi's ambassador, with craven UNCA asking nothing about Jamal Khashoggi.
But it emerged that Guterres, the guest of honor access to whom had been sold, would be a no-show. Inner City Press put the question of the new UN child rape in Gabon to Guterres' head of censorship / accreditation Melissa Fleming at the end of this video, here. There has been no answer.
The Quinn Emanuel letter was received by the UN's Melissa Fleming, Maria Luiza Vioti and Tal Mekel and to each UNCA Executive Board member, to them citing UNCA's stated goals that it has a charter to supposedly uphold. Nothing, yet.
What's next? Since the letter, Inner City Press has published exclusive stories not only from the U.S. court systems but about the United Nations, including its agencies UNOPS, UNFPA, UNITAR and UNESCO. (Also credited in AP, Daily Mail, and Nigeria's Sahara Reporters, amid answers from the IMF.)
But none of its written questions have been answered by the UN Spokespeople, now including Paulina Kubiak for the UN PGA, and it remains banned from entry to the UN's briefings. This must end.
Having asked for a collegial discussion, and while still offering it, things must turn to the law. UNCA is a New York State non-profit which has not only not abided by its stated goals - it has tortiously interfered with a journalist's right to cover the United Nations. The United Nations itself propounds Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and has other legal duties that must be addressed by national courts, particularly in the UN's host country...
Those in receipt of the first, friendly letter: melissa.fleming@un.org, marialuiza.viotti@un.org, mekel@un.org, malu@un.org, and UNCA
Valeria Robecco, ANSA News Agency, Nabil Abi Saab, Al-Araby, Jianguo Ma, Xinhua News Agency, Edith Lederer, Associated, Giampaolo Pioli, Quotidiano, Linda Fasulo, Ibtisam Azem, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed Newspaper, Ali Barada, France 24, Asharq Al-Awsat; Oscar Bolanos, OMB News, Sherwin Bryce-Pease, SABC South Africa - Alexander Hassanein, The Tokyo Shimbun, Maria Khrenova, TASS, Philippe Rater, Agence France-Presse, Kaori Yoshida, Nikkei, Betul Yuruk, Anadolu Agency at president@unca.com, valeria.robecco@gmail.com, nabisaab@gmail.com, mjg222888@gmail.com, elederer@ap.org, giampioli@aol.com, lindafasulo@gmail.com, ibtisam.azem@alaraby.co.uk, abarada@hotmail.com, ombyvozque@gmail.com, s.brycepease@gmail.com, alexander@tokyoshimbun.us, khrenova_m@tass.ru, philippe.rater@afp.com, kaori.yoshida@nex.nikkei.com, byuruk@aa.com.tr
Three of the 15 are from French media, two from Italy, with various dictatorships represented.
Newly "elected" is Carrie Neuton of Le Monde, with 32 votes. She is now responsible for the UNCA board's lack of response to a law firm's letter about their / her role in censorship. Will there be a response?
We'll have more on this. Watch this site.
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