by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Sept 20 – 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 Wednesday, September 20, Guterres issued canned readout including that he "met today with H.E. Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Secretary-General and the President, in his capacity as Chair of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS, discussed the political and security situation in West Africa and the Sahel, including the terrorist threat, countries undergoing political transitions, and the situation in Niger. They also discussed efforts to implement the sustainable development agenda in Nigeria." Tinubu, of course, had called him "Antonio Goresh" in his UNGA speech, video here.
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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