SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 20 – How
irrelevant has the UN become under Antonio Guterres and
Missions like this month's President of the UN Security
Council, Bahrain - and last months, the US?
On Sunday April 19 amid claims
the Strait of Hormuz was open, two Indian tankers were
fired on by Iran. Meanwhile on no fewer than three Sunday
TV shows, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz claimed the
UN was doing great, and said he is in close communications
with the IAEA, whose Rafael Grossi is misusing the agency
to run to be next SG, perhaps as bad as the old SG.
One candidate following in
Antonio Guterres' oily footsteps in Macky Sall, with the
support not of Senegal but Angola, whose petro-dollars
Guterres used to buy his first term as SG. (see the book
UN Betrayals, here).
That France would support Sall, fixed on its Franco-phony,
says a lot - but the French mission declines comment.
One of the few other pieces
about the races quoted but sure did not criticize Waltz
for similarly dodging: "Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, was asked at a Senate Foreign
Relations Committee hearing last week by Republican Sen.
Pete Ricketts of Nebraska — one of the letter’s
signatories — about Bachelet’s fitness for the job. Waltz
responded that he wasn’t in a position to say whether the
U.S. would support or oppose her" - so what IS Waltz'
position? Front row at at Madison Square Garden for the
Knicks' games, tickets which we learned during the
Ticketmaster / Live Nation trial cost up to $20,000? Who
is paying for his tickets, or "gifting" them?
[The Knicks collapses on April 20, blowing a lead
and losing to the Atlanta Hawks, tweet here]
Inner City Press would asks USUN and public their response - except that US Mission does not answer request from US Press, like our February 2 UN reform-related message. We hope to have more on this.
The same piece baldly states, "there was widespread agreement that Guterres performed best in what the U.N. calls the 'interactive dialogue' with General Assembly members." No, he bought it with secret promises to each of the P5 members - and with undisclosed Angolan oil (and it seems CEFC China Energy) money - there's a book on this: United Nations Betrayals: From Election Stolen by Guterres to Bribes and Banning of the Press, here
UNGA votes have no
effect, and there are been much larger margins. And SG
Antonio Guterres continues to be allowed to ban the Press
that reports on UN waste and corruption. So where is the
reform? Even from USUN "reform" man Jeff Bartos, nothing.
We hope to have more on this, too.
This is the culmination of a decade
of UN decay under Guterres.The contrast was on display at
the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington April
14-15. Inner City Press was accredited to the IMF
meetings, and in person asked the IMF's Tobias Adrian
about Anthropic's Mythos. The next day, after UNCTAD sent
Inner City Press an update that it was not allowed to a
lower profile "Borrowers' Platform" event with Antonio
Guterres, Guterres rudely ignored the staff that pour him
water, then pontificated about domination. But what
are Mike Waltz and the others at USUN doing? Watch this
site - including for coverage of the April 21-22
"dialogues" with the four wan SG candidates.
