by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Aug 20 – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has disappeared for weeks, most recently silent about the missiles fired at Chernihiv in Urkaine.
When Inner City Press, which Guterres has banned from the UN, asks his spokesman Stephane Dujarric such questions as how much Guterres' many vacations cost the global taxpayers, Dujarric refuses to answer. But selectively he had reached out to a media in Algeria, claiming that if they had asked, it would have answered:
the spokesman for the Secretary General of the United Nations, Stéphane Dujarric. "I am writing to you, following the publication of your article concerning the holidays of Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations", indicated the spokesperson in a precision stressing that he was "saddened to see that the article relayed totally false information. He claimed that “these facts could very easily have been verified by a simple email or phone call to the United Nations. Unfortunately, the tone of the article leaves little room for doubt as to the journalist's intentions and bias vis-à-vis the Secretary General”. Stéphane Dujarric specifies in this regard that "the secretary-general is indeed on vacation, but his holidays take place in Portugal as well as in the United States, and in no case in Fez". The spokesperson for the Secretary General of the United Nations also specifies that "if the photos published were indeed taken in Fez, they were taken in November 2022, during the participation of the Secretary General in the Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations of United Nations. There too, these are public facts and very easily verifiable”.
So we're asking: where in the US? And at what cost? And why no response of any kind to Inner City Press' June 19, 2023 application to enter and cover UNGA high level week in September? Guterres is a censor.
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