UNSC Accomplishes Nothing on Iran As UNSG Guterres Slumps with Cronies and Bans Press

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, June 22 –  How corrupt and irrelevnt has the UN system become under Secretary Ganeral Antonio Guterres, who bans the Press from entering his UN?

  After accomplishing nothing on Ukraine and Gaza, much less DRC, Haiti or Cameroon, on June 21 Guterres put out a robo-statement, "I am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today. I call on Member States to de-escalate and to uphold their obligations under the UN Charter and other rules of international law."

During a more than two hour UN Security Council meeting on June 22, Guterres slumped in his chair, glared and sharpened his pencil. Free UN Coalition for Access (FUNCA) thread here. (There is a draft resolution with zero odds of enactment.)
 
  Guterres is lawless. A media reporting on omissions from Guterres' financial disclosures, and otherwise questioning his policies, he had roughed up and then banned entirely, with no appeal.

 Recently, he promoted Mr. Miguel Graca, his personal assistant from Portugal from D1 to D2 and now he is promoted "without proper process or announcement" to ASG.  He also promoted his special assistant Mr. Aguinaldo Baptista from P3 to P4 and to P5 and now to D1. Guterres is corrupt.

  The SG also appointed his long-time entourage from his transition team, Ms. Michelle Gyles-McDonnough as the Executive Director of the UNITAR, the ASG level with no clear process.  And he also appointed Ms. Michele Griffin to the Director of the Electoral Assistance Division in DPPA, bypassing all the proper procedures. She didn't have any prior experience nor knowledge in election matters at all. His UN ha failed on elections too, see JOH in Honduras.

  For now, Inner City Press cannot enter and ask about this - its written questions are unanswered by Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.

Guterres had the critical Press roughed up and thrown out. There has been no due process since, not even a response to Guterres' Melissa Fleming to a pro bono inquiry for Inner City Press from the law firm Quinn Emanuel. On June 19, 2025 Inner City Press re-applied to enter and report live on the UN. We'll have more on this.

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