| UN Saunders Who Banned Press
Now Given UNRWA by Guterres Birds of a Feather
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack UN GATE,
March 31 – The corruption and
waste of the United Nations
under Antonio Guterres
continues to spread. While
Guterres invokes legal
immunity for peacekeepers who
rape those they are supposed
to protect, just as he invokes
immunity for banning the Press
from UNHQ in NYC, his envoy on
sexual abuse Christian
Saunders flew in February,
prior to being given UNRWA, to
the Central African Republic.
How much did it cost? How much
did the self promotional video
he put on LinkedIn - well read
in CAR, to be sure - cost? The UN complain
about having no money, but
waste it on useless jaunts
costing thousands sending
Saunders from New York in
business class travel and
travel allowances, which
instead could easily be done
in a Teams/Zoom
presentation. For a one
day presentation! Saunders
does this constantly because
there's nothing useful for him
to do in New York. So
why is he there and his post
not transferred to Nairobi
instead (like what was
done to many UN posts) where
it is a lot closer to travel
to the majority of missions? Saunders
responded online on his
LinkedIn: "P.S. After posting
the video below, someone saw
fit to publicly cast negative
aspersions and question the
value of such a mission to CAR
during this time of austerity
for the United Nations... I
have zero problem in
justifying to anyone how we
utilize the UN’s resources,
which is after all public
money." Zero
problems? Saunders encouraged
UN Security to physically
throw out Inner City Press,
and has done nothing as it has
been banned ever since,
January 2026 denial without
any explanation. And now, "In
anticipation of UNRWA
Commissioner-General Philippe
Lazzarini’s end of term on 30
June 2026, the United Nations
Secretary-General has
designated Christian Saunders,
Special Coordinator on
Improving the United Nations
Response to Sexual
Exploitation and Abuse, as
Officer-in-Charge of UNRWA
from 1 April to 30 June 2026
and Acting
Commissioner-General of UNRWA
from 1 July 2026, until
further notice." Birds of a
feather... Inner City Press, still banned from the UN by Guterres, will have more on this.
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