SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 18 – How
irrelevant has the UN become under Antonio Guterres and
Missions like this month's President of the UN Security
Council, Colombia? A year ago in June 2025 Guyana's
Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett was UNSC President -
and banned the Press, never answering even its written
questions. Today June 13, even as junketing UN PGA
Annalena Baerbock has not seen fit to put
Rodrigues-Birkett's candidacy on the PGA website, Inner
City Press has sent the Guyana Mission a detailed
questionnaire on UN issues for their candidate to fill
out.
Another question: how does the US'
shifting relationship with Caracas impact its view of
Guyana? While still waiting for answers, we note the
pseudo-coy trial balloon for Amina J. Mohamed, who after
candidly expressing doubts about the UN has done all in on
Guterres' censorship, for nearly a decade.
Last week Inner City Press, banned from
entering the UN by Guterres - and his Deputy AJM - emailed
both of them, and the spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and
Melissa Fleming, this:
What are the comments and actions if any of SG Guterres and separately DSG Amina J. Mohammed on this sent to Inner City Press from staff: "United Nations "Secretary-General António Guterres " has announced the appointment of Ahunna Eziakonwa of Nigeria as Special Adviser on Africa, succeeding Cristina Duarte of Cabo Verde. Some observers have noted that a number of recent senior UN appointments have gone to officials from West Africa, including individuals from the same region and country as Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed. As Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed approaches the end of her tenure, questions may be raised regarding regional balance, equitable representation, and diversity in high-level appointments across the United Nations system."
No answer.
From the archives:
During a
more than two hour UN Security Council
meeting presided over by Guyana's Carolyn
Rodrigues-Birkett on June 22, Guterres
slumped in his chair, glared and sharpened
his pencil. Free UN Coalition for Access
(FUNCA) thread here.
Guyana's month atop the UNSC was a complete failure: they left no mark, and did not answer a single one of the daily written Press questions. A fish rots from the head.
See the book UN Betrayals, here).
One of the few other pieces
about the races quoted but sure did not criticize Waltz
for similarly dodging: "Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, was asked at a Senate Foreign
Relations Committee hearing last week by Republican Sen.
Pete Ricketts of Nebraska — one of the letter’s
signatories — about Bachelet’s fitness for the job. Waltz
responded that he wasn’t in a position to say whether the
U.S. would support or oppose her" - so what IS Waltz'
position? Front row at at Madison Square Garden for the
Knicks' games, tickets which we learned during the
Ticketmaster / Live Nation trial cost up to $20,000? Who
is paying for his tickets, or "gifting" them?
[The Knicks collapses on April 20, blowing a lead
and losing to the Atlanta Hawks, tweet here]
Inner City Press would asks USUN and public their response - except that US Mission does not answer request from US Press, like our February 2 UN reform-related message. We hope to have more on this.
The same piece baldly states, "there was widespread agreement that Guterres performed best in what the U.N. calls the 'interactive dialogue' with General Assembly members." No, he bought it with secret promises to each of the P5 members - and with undisclosed Angolan oil (and it seems CEFC China Energy) money - there's a book on this: United Nations Betrayals: From Election Stolen by Guterres to Bribes and Banning of the Press, here
UNGA votes have no
effect, and there are been much larger margins. And SG
Antonio Guterres continues to be allowed to ban the Press
that reports on UN waste and corruption. So where is the
reform? Even from USUN "reform" man Jeff Bartos, nothing.
We hope to have more on this, too.
This is the culmination of a decade
of UN decay under Guterres.The contrast was on display at
the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington April
14-15. Inner City Press was accredited to the IMF
meetings, and in person asked the IMF's Tobias Adrian
about Anthropic's Mythos. The next day, after UNCTAD sent
Inner City Press an update that it was not allowed to a
lower profile "Borrowers' Platform" event with Antonio
Guterres, Guterres rudely ignored the staff that pour him
water, then pontificated about domination. But what
are Mike Waltz and the others at USUN doing? Waltz
has been skydiving over France, and refusing expedited
treatment to Inner City Press' Freedom of Information Act
request about his payments to the UN to use its roof for a
VIP party, and more, here.
Watch this site.
