by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Aug 4 – How corrupt and irrelevant 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."
Then on August 4 Guterres "met with H.E. Mr. Mohammad Reza Aref, First Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on the margins of the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3), held in Awaza, Turkmenistan. The Secretary-General and Mr. Aref discussed regional issues of mutual interest. The Secretary-General welcomed the holding of the ceasefire between Iran and Israel and called on all concerned to resolve issues regarding Iran's nuclear program through diplomacy." From UN Spokesperson, no answers.
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.
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