| UN of
Guterres With Oil Companies So Inner City
Press Filed to PGA But Opposition Blocked
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Song
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 27 – How corrupt and
undemocratic is today's United
Nations?
Well, now that
Antonio Guterres is pushing
for a second five-year term,
while banning
the Press for the 1029th day
for daring to ask about his
finances and failures, he has
collaborators.
Take UNDP:
On April 21, the United
Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) in Colombia announced
an agreement with Chile-based
oil company GeoPark, called
“United for Territorial
Reactivation.” The initiative
would be implemented in three
Colombian departments where
GeoPark operates, including
Putumayo. This Monday,
April 26, two groups from the
Putumayo Amazon – the Siona
Indigenous Reserve of
Buenavista and the Association
of Sustainable Integral
Development of the Perla
Amazónica (ADISPA) – issued a
scathing public denunciation
addressed to the Colombia
Country Representative of the
UNDP, Jessica Faieta
Mejia. The denunciation
states that “We consider this
Alliance to be an act that
undermines the legitimacy and
trust in UNDP, since it is
INCOHERENT with the effective
possibility of environmental
and territorial protection
since it is being agreed with
the Company that most
threatens the fragility of the
Amazon.”
This while
Guterres omitted from his
financial disclosure money he
took from Gulbenkian
Foundation, which tried to
sell ITS oil company Partex to
UN briber CEFC China Energy.
To this low has Guterres
brought the UN. Dump him.
The
current President of the
General Assembly Volkan
Bozkir, a strongman from
Turkey who due to his bigoted
comments even pro-UN New York
City Mayor Bill de Blasio
wouldn't meet with, has the
duty of circulating letters
from candidates.
But
throughout February, March and
now April 2021, Bozkir refused
to circulate any letters or
CVs. Guterres will do anything
for a 2d term.
Including giving
out jobs, during the campaign,
to people who were supposed to
oversee him. With all due
respect, it is a conflict of
interest. On April 26, "United
Nations Secretary-General
António Guterres today
announced the appointment of
Courtenay Rattray of Jamaica
as High Representative for the
Least Developed Countries,
Landlocked Developing
Countries and Small Island
Developing States." We'll have
more on this - Inner City
Press is still banned from the
UN, no answers to questions,
we will not cease.
Bozkir's
spokesman Brendan Varma, who
blocks Inner City Press
on Twitter, continues to dance
around what the rules are and
won't answer.
So, as a
test - and to raise the issue
of the UN's lack of content
neutral media access rules, lack
of a Freedom of Information
Act (fought for the Free
UN Coalition for Access) and
lack of scruples - Inner City
Press on the morning of
February 26 submitted a signed
letter
and C.V. to the PGA's Office
and to Varma. Since
then, four weeks of dodging
and blockage, now of four. And
this:
Pakistan supports
Guterres, here.
Apparently, Paul Biya's
Cameroon and other states like
that of narco Juan Orlando
Hernandez are asked to be more
quiet with their support for
their favorite dictator
supporter, Antonio Guterres,
for now. Watch this site.
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