by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Sept 18 – As the UN General Assembly without France or the UK claimed to get underway on Saturday, September 16, 2023 in a temporary building wastefully built on its North Lawn, across First Avenue there was a Burmese rally.
Inner City Press, banned from the UN by pro-China UNSG Antonio Guterres, covered it. Video here.
On Monday, September 18, Guterres issued canned readout including that he "met with H.E. Mr. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Portuguese Republic. The Secretary-General thanked the President for Portugal’s commitment to advancing the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as for its support to United Nations peacekeeping." The latter has involved some unaddressed violence.
But the read-out was silent on Portugal's UNESCO bid for The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Head Office and Garden 1659 D (i)(ii)(iv)(vi). This Gulbenkian Foundation paid Guterres cold hard cash, while trying to sell its oil company to convicted bribery firm CEFC China Energy. Inner City Press, which coverd CEFC's conviction in Federal court, asked about the omission of this money from Guterres' financial disclosure and was roughed up and banned, and remains so from UNGA 2023.
The Burma rally urged the UN to credential NUG's Kyaw Moe Tun. But of course they won't: China is on the UN Credentials Committee.
And Guterres' UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric refused dozens of written questions from Inner City Press about the junta's plot to kill Kyaw Moe Tun, as prosecuted in the SDNY court Inner City Press covers daily since being thrown out of the UN by Guterres, and kept out by his Melissa Fleming.
Fleming, as reported, refused to response to a June 19 application by Inner City Press to enter and cover this UNGA, and then a pro bono law firm letter.
She will, however, apparently still give a speech this week it costs $800 or $2000 to attend.
Today's UN is totally corrupt.
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