By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
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UN GATE, August 27 – The United Nations these days is a venue of failure, censorship and even rape.
For the last two week the UN hosted meetings about the high seas but, as on non-proliferation, it all ended in failure. No high seas treaty, even watered down. So much for the High Ambition Coalition on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ).
Some couldn't even keep the canned quotes straight. But it was noteworthy that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres couldn't even muster a canned quote, much less exert any leadership, on the high seas. His junket to Lisbon was just for show, or a pretext. He only takes credit for others' work, and bans the Press that asks.
Throughout August it has held meetings on the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Inner City Press, banned from entering the UN for exposing UNSG Antonio Guterres' corruption, covered the NPT as it could, noting on August 26 the cutting off of Ukraine here.
On August 26, after an insiders' press conference from which it was also banned, the conference failed, Inner City Press video here, portrait of Costa Rica and Ambassador Maritza Chan here. Pick up in Costa Rica OnceNoticia here (and still not action or response from PR Chan).
Twelve hours later, emerging from slumber or worse, UNSG Antonio Guterres issued a canned statement about how concerned he was. Really? Then where was he? Either lazy or no impact or both - while he bans the Press that asks. "The Secretary-General expresses his disappointment at the inability of the tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to reach consensus on a substantive outcome... The Secretary-General expresses his sincere appreciation to Ambassador Gustavo Zlauvinen (Argentina), President of the Review Conference, for his vigorous efforts to facilitate agreement on an outcome document. Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General New York, 27 August 2022
Even during the endless speeches Friday night, in a "press" conference that was nothing but Japanese and Russian state media, Ambassador Gustavo Zlauvinen, President of the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, absurdly claimed that it was NOT a failure.
He said it had been a four week movie, just no photo at the end. Today's UN: defining failure down.
A fish rots from the head. That's today's UN.
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