by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, July 1 – With the UN under Antonio Guterres still shirking its financial responsibility to Haitians for having killed 10,000 of them with the cholera brought by UN peacekeepers from Nepal, today Guterres on a visit said:
Q: Are you getting closer to finding leadership for this international force?
Secrétaire général: The leadership will not be with the international force. The leadership will always be of the Haitian police. I hope, if the Security Council decides, under Chapter VII, and relevant countries are able to provide the necessary security forces, the objective of this force is to support the Haitian police with a capacity that is of course necessary in order to be able to effectively dismantle the action of the gangs." But UN Security is his gang, banning Press, video here.
On World Press Freedom Day, the United Nations of Antonio Guterres claimed to be in support of journalists being able to do their work without hinderance.
But UN Global Communications chief Melissa Fleming put out a video of Guterres equating what he (and she) characterize as disinformation as the threat to press freedom, Guterres has banned Inner City Press from entering the UN since 2018, when it exposed the omission of links to bribery firm CEFC China Energy from his financial disclosure.
On June 19, 2023, Inner City Press submitted an application to cover the UN General Assembly, letter here.
Law firm Quinn Emanuel, on a pro bono basis, wrote to Fleming and the UN Correspondents Association (with state media of China on its board of directors) seeking a dialogue to reinstate Inner City Press.
There has been no answer to an appeal to Guterres head of security Gilles Michaud.
But now, the application. Watch this site.
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