On Ukraine As UNSG Guterres Fails, He Was Slammed By Staffers, Now He Pleads to Visit Russia By Praising It
Guterres, who initially said the invasion wouldn't happen then through Melissa Fleming's DGC said don't call it a war, now says Russia always supports the UN (or at least, his 2d term)
By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book Song
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UN GATE / SDNY, April 20 – As the United Nations under Antonio Guterres fails on Ukriane, now belatedly some former UN officials have written to Guterres, (too) gently chiding him for presiding over the UN's morphing into the a League of Nations, useless and now defunct.
On April 15 they wrote: "As former staff members of the UN system, we, the undersigned... mplore you to intensify your personal efforts, deploying all capabilities at your disposal and acting upon lessons learnt from previous conflicts, for the cessation of hostilities."
Inner City Press, banned from the UN by Guterres, has reviewed the signatories, see one below and Dimitry Dovgopoly we've asked about. UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric, refusing to answer, on April 20 announced: "Yesterday afternoon, separate letters were handed over to the Permanent Missions of the Russian Federation and Ukraine. In these letters, the Secretary-General asked President Vladimir Putin to receive him in Moscow and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to receive him in Kyiv. The Secretary-General said, at this time of great peril and consequence, he would like to discuss urgent steps to bring about peace in Ukraine and the future of multilateralism based on the Charter of the United Nations and international law. He noted that both Ukraine and the Russian Federation are founding members of the United Nations and have always been strong supporters of this Organization." Really?
Here's a signer: Flavia Pansieri, implicated in the UN's cover up of the rape of children in the Central African Republic by (French) UN Peacekeepers. Inner City Press asked about this - before Guterres had it roughed and banned. And what of the signatories done about that? We'll have more on this.
Guterres couldn't or wouldn't resolve or reduce even a smaller conflict like Cameroon's Paul Biya killing the Anglophones. But who are these former UN officials? We'll have more on this.
They wrote, "we are horrified at the alternative, the UN becoming increasingly irrelevant and, eventually, succumbing to the fate of its predecessor, the League of Nations."
Today's UN is worse that the League of Nations, which never had personnel raping children in Africa and Haiti and then flying home with impunity, while the head man and his censor (here, Melissa Fleming) ban the Press that asks what is being done for the Organization's victims. Banned Inner City Press will have more on this, as well.
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