| As UN
Guterres Lusts For 2d Term UK Letter Both
Ban Press Bangkok Post Op-Ed Says No
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Feb 6 –
The moves by Antonio Guterres
to try to get five more years
in the UN Mansion on Sutton
Place by further selling out
human rights, banning the
Press which asks questions
about genocide in Cameroon,
peacekeepers' rapes and
Chinese bribes at the UN
continue.
But in his
lust for an unmerited second
term as UNSG, Guterres on
February 5 got fellow censor
UK PR Barbara Woodward and
Turkish strongman PGA Volkan
Bozkir to issue a letter
kicking off what he hopes to
be a rigged process. Woodward
even gushed
about openness, while her UK
Mission refuses
to answer written questions
from Inner City Press,
including about Guterres'
shameful cover up of sexual
abuse by his crony Fabrizio
Hochschild.
An op-ed in the
Bangkok Post says "António
Guterres does not deserve a
second term... his tenure as
the world's top diplomat has
been disappointing, marked by
failures to address human
rights abuses, initiate
fundamental institutional
reforms, or champion
multilateralism... There is no
shortage of qualified
candidates, including former
New Zealand prime minister and
former UN Development
Programme Administrator Helen
Clark, the former
Director-General of Unesco
Irina Bokova and Kristalina
Georgieva" of the IMF. Inner
City Press says: and there are
even more candidates better
than Guterres. We'll have more
on this. The op-ed is by Mark
S Cogan, Associate Professor
of Peace and Conflict Studies,
Kansai Gaidai University.
[Inner City Press asked Spokesman
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming for a response; none).
And at least one Ambassador so
far has had the courage to say
the Emperor (Tony) has no
clothes. We will have more on
this.
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